CoachB wrote:
6:56 today.
The return to in person instruction, coaching my track team, and being AD for every sport we offer trying to go all at once, just took too much out of me. I feel like in late February I was in 6;20-6:30 shape, but since then, my life has just been crazy hectic.
I never realized how much being on my feet all day took out of me. Looking back at my Strava logs, it's pretty apparent that as soon as we started back with in person instruction and I started walking around all day and then walking another 8000 steps at track practice, my ability to recover went right in the toilet.
During lockdown and 100% distance learning, my training stress scores were consistently around 300 per week, and I was handling it, recovering easily. Since mid February, I've had a hard time keeping it over 200, with the average probably around 150, but my legs are always sore, the achillies has been acting up, and my right hip has been sore since the workout on 4/24
On the plus side, I was still 21 seconds faster than when I tried a mile in October and am in way better shape heading into our summer break than I've been in years. I'm hoping that some local road races will open up and I can get back to the level of running I was at from December-February and establish a few new 50+ PRs.
hey coach, any progress with your weight?
