Losing motivation…please help

You are over trained. Meet your coach outside of practice, in the office. Discuss how to approach it. Season is not necessarily over, but you need to recouperate.

probably overtrained. when i got there it was a general malaise, sleeping a lot, no top gears, times going backwards, turned out i was anemic. get some iron -- and i'd suggest natural sources -- and if you keep feeling bad see a MD.

Overtrained or training for a wrong distance.

Maybe you prefer to race shorter distance and do more explosive training and less running?

As the others said, these are the most obvious signs of overtraining. You need to think about what has changed in your training since you went to college, if anything it would be great to see a general week that you do and the paces you do everything.

You started the season with this load and did okay for a few months and PR'd, thats to be expected. But eventually the workload gets too much and you will just regress more and more with the current workload. There's no way of escaping it either other than taking a few down weeks and waiting till you feel motivated again.

Sounds like the training you are doing is not optimal, probably running easy days too hard, or hammering too many workouts, either way, something has to give. You cannot go back to training at the intensity that you are, or you will just be back here this time next year. It's nothing to do with training for a wrong distance..

Overtraining is likely, as the others said, and talking to your coach (or start with an assistant coach) is a good idea.

That said, there are things you can do on your end:

1. Check your iron levels (all of them). Iron shows up in the blood in different ways, so get them all checked.
2. Track your sleep. Are you up until midnight every night? I was in college. It didn't help.
3. Make sure you are eating enough. Even if you haven't lost weight, you might not be getting enough or the right foods.
4. Allow yourself to run slightly slower paces than you had hoped for. If you are keying up to do 8x1000 in 3:00, do them in 3:05. Your body might just be "maxed out" right now and backing off a little would help. Our new coach has kids doing a lot of work at 85% instead of 100% (trying to hang with our fastest runner). Guess what, they are less sick and injured. They can run more workouts. It is paying off...

p.s. Don't give up on the sport. It is a life-long joy to be a runner and my college teammates are still my closest friends 30 years later. We all went through ups and downs. I had a track season where I basically got crushed in every track workout so the coach let me run them on my own (earlier or later). It was just good coaching to see what I needed and make it happen...

I dont know what the hell is happening to you but NEVER give up. No matter what. That's all I can really say