Another Comeback Thread

Also, if any of you are athletes on D1 teams and want to talk about your team/program I would be interested for recruiting purposes. Want to go to grad school for sociology and am currently located on east coast. But really looking to go anywhere D1.

Start focusing on your diet and try and lose those 30 extra pounds. Once you get down to within 10 pounds of your race weight. You could maybe add a little more intensity. You're gonna be sore as hell at first and it's gonna be a bitch to get back, but I don't know how out of shape you are.

You might want to start running every other day for about a week or two, then start trying to get in a run every day of the week. I would just make sure to take a day off whenever you need it, because it'll be tough to recover from runs at first and you might need that day off until you start getting into better shape and recovering more quickly. Stick to the 10% increase plan, but first just make sure you got your legs under you.

I don't know what kind of mileage you used to do, but I would say start slow and try not to rush things, because that will set you back even further than you would be taking things slow.

Exactly how out of shape are you? I would assume pretty bad if you gained 30 pounds. But that could go more quickly than you'd expect.

asfsf wrote:Once you get down to within 10 pounds of your race weight.

Sorry that was suppose to be all one sentence.

I would talk to you about my program, but you wouldn't want to come here, we have one or two good guys, but never have really established much of a team.

Thanks for the email. The extra weight has come along with the lifting program. It is muscle, not fat. I was never a high mileage guy. 60-70 at my highest. I did a run the other day and felt like shit.

Well if that's the case, 60ish isn't too high but not too low either. I would start at something like 20 miles off 5 days a week, then gradually increase the miles and eventually try getting to run every day. You could still probably afford to lose some weight. You just have to keep in mind that whether it's muscle or not, your body still isn't used to the extra weight.

i was in a similar situation this fall, less weight to lose (~15 pounds) but more time off (~5 years). my biggest focus for the first 4-6 weeks was to get out the door at least 6 days a week. i ran pretty slow, 7:45-8:05/mile. after 6 weeks between 30 and 45 miles/week, it was pretty easy to start building mileage and adding workouts. two months in i was at 50 miles/week, another month to 60 miles/week, and after five months i feel pretty good averaging 60+ w/ peak weeks of 70. race times have come along accordingly. the biggest key for me was not taking extra days off-- one a week at the beginning and more like one a month now.