ever have one of those runs

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21 years ago 07/21/2002 11:50am EDT

ever have one of those runs when you just couldn't finish? one of those runs when mentally or physically you just couldn't finish? What did you do? Did you make up the miles the next run or week or at a later time or did you just forget them. I was supposed to do 48 this week. I was only going to get in 44 instead and also today I had a horrible long run and just needed to stop running after eight. I was just not able to do it. Now I'm pissed off about that and short on my mileage. Any thoughts?

21 years ago 07/21/2002 12:06pm EDT

re: ptkrun

i have had plenty of runs like that. mostly, they were in the early stages of an injury or the onset of a more chronic pain (ie. bursitis, achilles tendonitis). i won't tell you to let it slide, b/c i know you are ocd...aren't we all by now? i'll tell you to go ahead and make it up in whatever way you can...junk mile it if you have to. just put your mind at ease. just don't over extend yourself...if your body is telling you that its feeling like hell then you may want to listen to it.

oh for reference, if i'm going to come up short on a week, i throw the mileage in before the end of the week so that my weekly total doesn't slip...i imagine you'll do the same thing.

best of luck

21 years ago 07/21/2002 2:09pm EDT

re: ptkrun

I don't like to "make up" mileage, it just seems like that is a way to increase risk of an injury. When I have those days than I just take an easier week. Just my personal opinion though.

21 years ago 07/21/2002 3:20pm EDT

re: mikemckeighen

I think it's a bad idea to be married to our weekly projected mileage totals. The best thing sometimes is just stopping. Then again, sometimes, when ya' feel great, that 8-mile run turns into an 11. it all evens out. Best thing on earth to do: Listen to your body!

21 years ago 07/21/2002 4:15pm EDT

re: Brian Harris

Brian is right. Unfortunately, "listening to your body" isn't always easy; some of us -- including me -- seem to have a tin ear.

If you just can't get through your run, you've probably overextended yourself, and you're probably on the verge of injury. There are good reasons to push yourself through very deep fatigue, but "I have to meet my weekly mileage quota" isn't one of them. If you insist on crawling through another four miles on a Sunday night just to make your weekly quota, there's a good chance that your running log is going to have a lot of "zero" entries in it pretty soon.

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