Dear all,
I have recently upped my running frequency from 3 time per week to about 4-5 times a week and have also joined in on a spinning class (for the uninitiated cycling machine with hills and variations). I am now finding that I am feeling quite rundown and have had some mouth ulcers and extreme tiredness. I took 2-3 days off and fealt alot better and have now started running. I have, I think, a healthy diet I eat fruit, fresh vegetables, fish and meat and pasta. I seem to eat all the time.
Why might I be getting run down as I feel that my diet should be ok. Am I doing something wrong?
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After around about 6 weeks my body will sort itself out.
I have been running for about 2 years on and off and have run quite a few 10k's 10m's and one 1/2. I am now trainging for the Reading 1/2 and this is really the first time I have exp this. I may not only be from running I might have been a little ill (this time of year). Had 2 months (Nov and Dec) off from running so combi of all this might be this. So hopefully keep on trucking and just before the Reading 1/2 I will feel ok and ready.!!
I think you want to watch out that you don't start "over-training". there is a lot more to this that simply getting tired.
it's an actual clinical psychophysiological condition involving "profound fuel exhaustion, actual cellular injury, breakdwon of the body's defence mechanisms, and neurological and endocrine disturbances" (quoted in Bob Glover's book).
if you get it badly enough, it can take months to get over it.
quite apart from anything else, you'll actually start getting slower - which defeats the object of all that extra training you're putting in.
so please be careful and, as PB says, increase your work-load in gradual increments.
less is sometimes more - excuse the cliche. ;-)
Cheers
I do my long run on a Saturday morning and my times are pretty much in relation to the amount of sleep I get.