Pace is Slow after illness/overtraining.

Eat good food, rest a lot, an pray to God. Visit a doctor if it persists but its mostly food just eat good healthy food a lot of it!!

I had this after a bout of illness + overtraining / post viral syndrome or whatever. The right response is to back off, probably only run every other day, and sleep a lot. Eat healthy food, cut out processed crap. Your body is still in the hole. You may need a month or two to feel like your old self. Don't start attacking training until you feel back to normal.

Thanks...did you feel completely fine? I find it odd that I feel so good...I am sleeping as much as want, eating really well. I am guessing it must have been a real bad illness.

I am only doing really slow easy running at the moment...was going to continue that and hope that eventually the pace would bounce back.

I had the same problem that you had during my past winter. I agree that the best thing to do is just try to rest extra and not rush back. You might feel fine but your body is under a lot of stress trying to fight an illness so it needs some time to fully get back to notmal. Just take it slow and eventually you will get back to where you were in terms of fitness. It might take a few weeks but you will get back to where you were.

You haven't run for two weeks. Did you expect to run the same easy pace ? Just keep running it will come back.

I got massively ill in mid March for weeks, and I'm still nowhere near where I was before the illness (6:40 easy pace) over 3 months later. Based on heart rates, I'm over 8:20 pace - I run by feel but analyze the HR data post run. It's an absolute mindf*. I've had my fair share of long illnesses, and it's always taken about a month of easy running to get back, but this is something else. Maybe ZIKA. (I kid).

I had the same problem, it started in January, came on suddenly, seemed to improve after a week or so then perhaps I pushed it too hard then it got worse than ever. Doc said it was a sub-clinical virus and to give it 4 weeks to clear, I should keep training, all easy, reduce volume.

It took about 6 weeks and around then I started to see improvements every day. Although the initial improvements came quickly, I didn't get back to the same level I was at before the illness for another couple months. I felt very strong and fit and healthy in every other way. That's why the doc diagnosed a virus, they hit different people in different ways , my son had pneumonia at the very same time. I think the doc was right.

Keep the faith, you will get back to normal. No hard running or anything stressful no matter how good you feel. Run by HR (easy). Throw away the HR some days to give yourself a break, but stick with an even easier pace in that case. Needless to say take care with rest, diet, etc.

Thanks for the feedback everyone:)