I need somone's help - I think I've been overdoing it recently and right now am completely shattered (i.e I could fall asleep right now and my body aches) however I haven't really been doing much more than normal. Why am I suddenly so tired? Haven't lost my appetite - shame!! and am starting to panic as I am doing the Capital City Challenge 10k on Sunday....
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I say, do a short run today and another on Thursday (no more than 3 miles) to get your legs moving and spend the rest of the time on your butt!!!
But heh, what do I know. Do what your body tells you.
Good luck!
I've done 6 miles this morning and attempterd a bit of rowing and very slow running in the gym at lunch time - I just find that resting makes me feel so lazy and it's always the same that when I'm resting I see people out running everywhere i go - this makes me feel even lazier!!!
Going to a Morcheeba concert tonight so after I walk the dog at tea time I'll be spending the evening sitting on my butt!!!
Would a couple of gentle miles up hill tomorrow night be too detrimental or what about cycling ?(sorry you'll see that I find it very difficult to do nothing)
I think the best thing you could do this week (if you down right refuse to sit on your butt) is to swim. Gives your body plenty of support and gives your legs a rest from the pounding.
Is your diet ok? Plenty of iron etc... anemia (which you know females are much more susceptable to for a very particular reason) will make you feel exhausted like you've described.
Swimming sounds a good idea as the pool is 5 mins from my work for lunch time and the one down the road from my house opens at 6am.
Thanks for your advice
Gillian
I don't know your reasons for running or training and I won't pretend to know you but I am surprised about how often you feel guilty. You sound like you train twice a day every day.
For me, I train to keep the weight off and to be fit and healthy. If I am over training I don't feel as fit and healthy and if I don't eat enough I don't feel as fit and healthy. I listen to my body, when I'm hungry I eat and when I tired I rest. It seems to do me just fine.
We all get a little bit guilty if we eat naughty things and don't train as hard as we think we should have but I train to improve the way I live. I don't live to train.
But, everyone is different. It would be a very boring place if it wasn't so.
G.
It sounds like you need at least two full days off, taking things very easy. Are you eating enough?
Alternatively, if you feel "off" then you may be suffering the first signs of a cold or the flu. Either way a good rest will be of more benefit than anything else.
Do it - you know it makes sense (it's what you would tell someone else to do!)
As for the rest of the week - if you haven't done much swimming recently be careful as you could end up getting delayed muscle soreness which wouldn't be very good a few days before your race.
I must admit that common sencse tells me that what you're all saying is true - I'm going to try and lighten up a bit this week, although I am going to go for a gentle swim before work for the rest of the week as I'm quite an early riser anyway and - the alternative would be to go into work early and realistically that's not an alternative I'm even considering!!
Chill!!!!
G.
it can be
Could you have become addicted to exercise and, more damagingly, addicted to restricting your food intake?
If so, it's a difficult pattern to break, but you are going to run so much better, and enjoy your running and other training more, if you ease off. It isn't all or nothing. Missing a session, or having a couple of days of doing nothing more energetic that walking to and from the car, doesn't mean that your exercise programme is up the spout. Eating enough to fuel your exercise won't turn you into a blob.
You will do that 10K in a far better time if you ease off now and let your legs refuel properly and your body do some repair and strengthening work. Realistically, as Gordon says, you could do a very good 10K with no more training between now and then. Don't blow it by forcing your tired body to exercise and getting injured as a result. Our bodies are very good at doing whatever it takes to get us to take a much-needed rest (my best personal demonstration of this was having a grinding work schedule unexpectedly interrupted by, of all things, a dose of chickenpox - at 22 years of age) and something will go wrong.
Never forget - the training effect takes place on REST days. Less can be more.
Cheers, V-rap.
I had a lie in this morning until 6:30 - which is a luxury and I feel totally great for it. I'm going to have a gentle swim at lunch time and then a big walk/play in the park with my dog this evening.
I really want to complete the course on Sunday in 42 min and deep down I know I'm capable of it - so until then I'm going to have a bit of a lazy life as I don't want to find that I'm too tired on the day.