I am in the middle of a marathon block. I did a LR yesterday that was slightly overreaching (like most LR’s during marathon training). I took it easy during the run, but it was just one of those days where things were a bit harder than they should have been. Anyways, 24 hours later I still feel like trash.
Anyone go through this? What gives?
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If it's a persistent issue going forward evaluate diet, sleep, iron/vitamin levels, and how hard you are running leading up to long days.
It’s part of overreaching. You’ll be fine after 2-3 days. If not, take the whole week relatively easy and you’ll be fine.
Assuming you mean trash like sick’ish feeling, not just sore, then you need to eat more and drink more fluids like Gatorade or even just pop (my personal favourite is tonic water).
Once, I experimented with Low Carb High Fat diets for general health. I also did some competitions (orienteering, totally off trail into wildnerness, 50min race time). It felt good in the start (20min), but I felt so out of shape in the second half, everything was heavy. So I kindof had removed the glycogen storages and never hit any wall, but rather pushed the fat burning to the max. But, this is fixed fast with eating something with carbs or sugar.
Just made sure I ate carbs close to competition and I was in "shape" immediately
The muscular trash feeling is something different. LR fatigues muscles so of course it persists some time after.
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