Am I running too much?

Maybe your body tells you to take it easy a bit?

From what little I know I would tell you to rest up until the hamstring issue is resolved

With the mileage, I think you're not pushing your limit much. Just make sure to pay attention to how you run. Do not push the pace and just run how you feel.

It also may be sleep and diet issues. Those are just some of my thoughts.

Thanks, that's helpful. Yeah maybe I'm pushing myself a bit too hard on some of the runs but have tried to keep them mostly at a casual effort. Diet has been pretty good (lots of vegetables, whole grains, protein, water) and several beers over the weekend. Sleep is okay (typically 7-8 hours / night) but could probably be better.

You probably weren't running too much earlier, but it sounds like you need to back off now. Maybe you've got an underlying cold, or you've had other stresses going on, but when people tell you to listen to your body, general fatigue and aching tendons are exactly the kinds of signals they mean. Take extra rest days, cut your easy run distance in half, and skip workouts until you feel better or figure out what's going on. And look into hamstring exercises, too. A down week or two, even an off week or two, won't set you back nearly as much as a serious injury.

NO, not too much. But not smart enough.

Are you training for xc? Run your long run easy, but count it as a harder day/workout anyways. You shouldn't do a workout the day after your long run, but you should feel like you could. You can do the last few miles of another run at tempo pace instead, which could be any day you're feeling good.

If you're training to race a half or marathon or something, and not xc, ignore this.

looks like slow fatigue-build up.

That is what happens if you never take a week off.

Individually, every week looks quite easy but the body need to rest deeply time to time and if you don't let this happen, the recovery is never full ad at one point everything goes wrong (pace, pains, overall fatigue, injury).

Take a week off : 0 to 20miles, no workout.

And dont forget to do it again every 4to 6 weeks (50% of usual mileage)

What would be smarter? Only asking because I'd like to make adjustments if needed

Not training for XC (or really anything ). Would like to run a half or full marathon when races start happening again

Thanks, I've heard of many people taking down weeks every 4-6 weeks or so but is ab 50% mileage cut necessary?

Regarding your mileage since March, I've comfortably exceeded your number every week and I'm fresh as a daisy. You're not doing too much, but maybe you're doing too much at a fast pace. Usually a week of nothing but easy running works wonders for me when I'm fatigued.

One other thing that changed was a little over 3 weeks ago, I moved. Was training about 50-60% of weekly mileage on a soft surface gravel trail, but now don't have access and all runs since then have been on roads/sidewalks. Not sure if that would have such drastic effects, but soft surface is definitely preferable

milesoftrialsxc wrote:

One other thing that changed was a little over 3 weeks ago, I moved. Was training about 50-60% of weekly mileage on a soft surface gravel trail, but now don't have access and all runs since then have been on roads/sidewalks. Not sure if that would have such drastic effects, but soft surface is definitely preferable

I hope you are running in road shoes on roads. And avoid concrete surfaces (sidewalks) as much as you can.

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