Dead Legs

I'm not exactly sure what my problem is but for the last several weeks my legs have been dead and any attempts to run any distance have been met with either serious difficulty or outright failure. This simply can't go on. I have a half marathon in less than two months (50 days) and then training for an ironman begins.

Here are the possible explanations for my dead legs:

1. Over-training – I don't think this is the answer. Yes, it is true that since I made my New Year's Resolution I have run at least a mile every single day. Obviously that means that I have not had a complete rest day since then. But probably half those days, since January 1, have been only a single mile. I simply can't see how fifteen minutes or less of exercise in every day constitutes over-training. And there have been a lot of single mile days lately to see if I can "fix" the dead leg issue and so far that doesn't seem to have worked.

2. I do have some pain in the hip area and I am thinking it is time to see Miracle Man Jay to fix my ITB band or whatever the issue is. It doesn't seem farfetched that tightness or knots or whatever in my hips or ITB band might be somehow not allowing my legs the freedom to run like the wind (more like a zephyr).

3. The third possible explanation is that I have some dread neurological disease that hasn't yet been identified, but they will now that I have it. The good part of this is that they will name it after me. I'm sort of assuming that the other good part of this is that they will figure out how to cure it faster than they have figured out how to cure the common cold.

4. Nutrition? I think my diet is overall pretty good. OK. I confess to some ice cream while in Oregon. All right. It was a lot of ice cream. But still. In the scheme of things, I think my diet is better than 82.4% of all Americans. (I made up that statistic.)

5. I am open to other explanations.

I think it is time for a visit to Jay and see if that works.