Things happen for a reason

I'm not a believer in coincidences.  Things happen for a reason.  I've been struggling this week with my hamstring injury which is a hang over from the Ultra X 125.  Every time I try and run on it it starts to hurt and I back off before doing anymore damage.
This weekend was meant to be two long back to back days in the mountains but with my hammy and a terrible weather forecast on Saturday, I decided to find a lower route which would be safer as I'd be solo and it wouldn't put too much strain on my hammy.
Michael Martin suggested I go east where at least it would be dry so I headed to the Pentland hills where I'd been before and with the aid of a new app, I had a 21 km route market out.  The route started with a road and after 1km my hammy was hurting and I was restricting the length of my stride, not a good start.  Then I realised I was wearing road shoes not trail shoes so depending on the terrain, I may have an issue. It turned out I had picked the wrong route on the app and it was a route that walked through the mountains, not over the mountains.  This was good for two reasons; 1 - I was in road shoes; 2 - my hammy would not have enjoyed the descent.  How fortunate was I?
The route I selected turned out to be excellent if I wanted to run so I'll definitely come back and run this route in the future.  However it gave me a good workout as I power walked it and am sure my hammy was grateful for the break.  Things happen for a reason.
I'll be spending a lot of time on the eliptical trainer and the stair master while building my upper body strength in the gym in the coming weeks while my medical team sort my hammy.  Today I did 20 mins on each and 20 mins on the weights and felt like I'd worked hard at the end.
It's always the biggest challenge in preparing for a race, staying injury free, so you can stick to your training plan.  So my coach is making adjustments to the training plan to optimise the 59 days remaining before the race.
You have to take the positive out of every set back and whilst I may not get the miles of running that was planned, I can spend more time in the gym getting my body ready for the challenge of a 7 day race carrying 10 kilo's on my back.  The mountain power walking is essential as the terrain and gradient in Romania dictates that it's almost impossible to run up the hills.