Planning 2015 and beyond

It's been an interesting week as I ease my way back into training, making sure I don't have a set back with my hamstring. On Thursday I cycled to work which is 14 miles through the countryside with a number of inclines to make sure you work. I was so excited to be riding to work I forgot my laptop and my socks - doh! After work I had a light sports massage and apparently my hamstring is getting better and then peddled home. Still don't like the feeling round the side of my knee so I am being patient and not going out running even although I dreamt about it the other night.
On Friday I went swimming and was so pleased to have a training partner as that sure made me work harder than I would have done on my own.  I did a total of 2,500 metres without a pool buoy and my hamstring felt good. However my speed slowed down during the pyramid so I've a long way to go.  Next week should see me start my open water training.
Saturday was a glorious day and the ATHelite group were going out cycling but I'm not up to keeping up with them and knew my heart rate would have gone sky high so I decided to go solo. I set my garmin up only to give my heart rate and I concentrated on keeping that low. It felt fantastic cycling for 2.5 hours through the countryside and not chasing someone else's back wheel while breathing out my bum!
But today I decided to rest, catch up with some household chores (I don't do many!), and spent time planning 2015 and beyond. There are so many great races in the world but they take a lot of planning. My desert race in Nov 2015 has been postponed a year so I checked out the race they substituted it with - not for me. I'm now considering going back on my word (no more early season races to avoid winter training) and was checking out the ocean floor race. Check it out. Www.oceanfloorrace.com. It looks amazing, a real adventure and a tough challenge - 160 miles non-stop in 4 days.  I'm 99% certain this will be it and once decided the deposit will be paid and I will start preparing my training plan. I'm so excited just thinking about it but I mustn't rush back to running just yet. And there are more races in my sights for 2015 and beyond but let's get the first big one in the diary before I get carried away.