Long run went south.... (Read 786 times)

...............or somewhere, because it and I had totally different plans for this morning! Started out on a scheduled 15 miler this morning, and by mile 2.5, I knew it just wasn`t going to happen. Thought about HTFU, but if running over the years has taught me anything, it has taught me to listen to my body. Today my body was telling me that I am generally tired, heavy legged, and have an evelated heart rate. So, I settled for an 8 miler in 49 degree temps and with wind gusts to about 45 mph. (That headwind was like doing hillwork!) We have ice on the way for tonight and then off and on the rest of the week. Hopefully, I can get some rest in this week, back off a few days, and then be ready to make it up next Sunday. I sincerely hope that everyone else who goes long on Suday morning, had better results!

Oh yeah. The temp was right on. It was my body today that just wasn`t cooperating. We too are supposed to experience a 30 degree drop in temps over the next 24 hrs. In fact, it is already down to 39. I don`t know when we`ll see 49 again. I don`t HTFU when my body is telling me no. It has always spelled disaster, or injury, in the past. Are you in the Chicago area? If so, what part? I have lot`s of family up there.

...............or somewhere, because it and I had totally different plans for this morning! Started out on a scheduled 15 miler this morning, and by mile 2.5, I knew it just wasn`t going to happen. Thought about HTFU, but if running over the years has taught me anything, it has taught me to listen to my body. Today my body was telling me that I am generally tired, heavy legged, and have an evelated heart rate. So, I settled for an 8 miler in 49 degree temps and with wind gusts to about 45 mph. (That headwind was like doing hillwork!) We have ice on the way for tonight and then off and on the rest of the week. Hopefully, I can get some rest in this week, back off a few days, and then be ready to make it up next Sunday. I sincerely hope that everyone else who goes long on Suday morning, had better results!

Let me start by Clarifying a few things. I ain't calling anyone a wuss, I ain't saying nobody did anything wrong. I'm just saying...."This is how I'd approach it" Having just one day where I'm feeling a little off would not signify to me that I need a rest. Now, in the two days prior you A) Did some intervals and B) did a race. Even though you said you held back you still did a hard effort. I would expect to feel a little tired.....but not in a position where I would be pushing injury. I would have HTFU'd it. At 2.5 miles I would not have made the decision to shorten it. I would have gotten to within 80%.....Then made the decision but once your at 80%....hell you might as well finish at that point. Two off days in a row......Now I'll look, question, back off. The elevated heart rate could be easily explained by the wind.....it makes a HUGE difference. Again, that's just me.....personally, being human, I think we all have a tendency to talk ourselves down. Trust me, I've bagged my share of workouts !

It's too bad you can't come south too . . . I shirked the bridge part of my long run on Saturday because it was in the low 50s and windy. Bet you'd have loved that! Here's sending some warm thoughts your way.

You can never be to careful.......esp when your training for a Marathon. There's nothing worse than being side-lined for 2 to 3 weeks or even longer because of an injury. When your fatigued your open for injury. I guess that is what I always question. Am I really fatigued or am I letting my mind get the better of me? Thus the 2 day rule. Rarely do I feel tired 2 days back to back. I can feel for your need to vent. When I focus on an "A" race and I get in training mode I become one anal human being. Completely driven by the training schedule. Do you feel like you need to go make your long run up? I know that is how I end up feeling......like if I don't then my final performance is going to suffer because I'm 7 miles off from where my training says I should be. Combine that with not having the time to train at the levels you once did, doing what you can just to hold onto what you got........geesh, I'm bummin myself out here. I guess thats why every workout is so important to me. Thru my entire history of running I've been able to stay pretty much injury free. I think triathlon has helped with that too. It forces me to drop the run and hop on the bike.....Swimming is really strarting to become my new run too. Good luck with the Marathon...... I've pasted this here before but I think it is appropriate for your post. "If you over trained, it means that you didn't train hard enough to handle that level of training...So you weren't over trained; you were actually under trained to begin with..." (Hillary Biscay) Ironman Freak-

When my long run goes south, I wind up in Tacoma.

One word, salvage. Write off workouts like that and write in a new plan on the fly. Chalk it off as a stamina run, hill simulation or a recovery run if ran slowly. It's too easy to get irrational in thinking and emotionally nutty. Runners tend to get neurotuc about these situations rather than looking at it for what it really is. The body is simply telling you it is no shape to meet the demands. You may need a sabbatical because of a slight overtraining, maybe low in protein stores, perhaps an anemic situation,lack of sleep, etc.. If you dont have a tiger in your tank then purr on with the kittens.