High mileage, NO speedwork. How much will I lose?

This thread has helped for sure! It is still a battle in my head between feeling like I SHOULD do them for whatever reason, like I'm weak for not wanting to put in effort. But I am slowly learning to accept that at the moment I'm not in the mental place to try and force it, and that at this time in my life I have no good reason to do so anyway.

The replies in this thread have been massively helpful for that acceptance, and have helped me question why I feel the way I do and try to address that. My focus from now on will be to just enjoy myself and if at any time that stops, I will take a step back. It is a hobby, after all.

It will be a challenge to keep reinforcing this when I start to slip back into negative thoughts, but I will make sure to keep reminding myself daily and hopefully it will get easier. One day I may even get my drive back without feeling like I have to run myself into the ground.

So thanks so much for everyone who has given such thoughtful and meaningful responses, experiences and advice in this thread. I can't emphasise this enough :)

Glad it's helped and I wish you all the best.

I'd make the suggestion, if possible, of running relaxed and easy over hilly terrain, road or off road. It takes the pressure away from running to a particular pace but running up steeper inclines gets the heart rate up towards an easy tempo effort. I'm lucky enough to live in an area with lots of hilly roads and most runs end up averaging around 100ft per mile of climb. At one stage two of the guys I train with were less motivated for different reasons and would most of my runs with me around an hour to 75 minutes each day over the hills. I continued with the interval/tempo sessions but they skipped this and the only other quality in their training were some 20 seconds strides a couple of times a week. Anyway, we all ran a four mile race and despite their lack of intervals/tempo/threshold work we were all close together at just over 20 minutes. The hills definitely helped them and we've continued to emphasise this training since. We're not pushing the hills, rather running up hills steep enough (5%-15% grade) that even at a relaxed natural pace you're close to but just below tempo effort. I think at lot of the Oz and NZ runners from the 60's onwards at least built their training on a similar foundation with great success

Forgot to add, all the best and I hope you're able to find an approach to your running that brings you happiness and satisfaction!