did a hard 10 miler on monday and just ran the shittiest interval workout of my life. Could I still be feeling the affects of monday's hard run? This is not the first time this has happened and is becoming a trend. I'll run a great long tempo on monday, only to run like shit on my next workout despite 72 hours recovery.
Thanks.
How's your diet, specifically after the 10 miler?
Diet has always been good, I try to stay up on top of that kinda thing. I doubt the diet has anything to do with this. I've just recently started doing these long hard runs as a workout once a week, could my body just be adjusting to them?
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Diet has always been good, I try to stay up on top of that kinda thing. I doubt the diet has anything to do with this. I've just recently started doing these long hard runs as a workout once a week, could my body just be adjusting to them?
That sounds likely. Good luck!
What distance are you training for? Was that a 10 mile tempo? Each workout you do is one piece and put together with other workouts combine in a balence to make you faster.
If one workout makes it hard to do the next one after your recovery, than you need to back off either the distance or intensity. If you are 80 to 90% rested before the next workout then i think thats ok.
Shorten your monday long tempo to 2 mile warm up, 4 mile tempo, 2 mile cool down. only 8 miles total
A 4 mile tempo is nothing like a 10 mile tempo.
It sounds like you're either racing the 10 mile tempo or going too hard on Tuesday. If you go too hard on a long tempo there's going to be extra recovery time.
racing the 10miler sounds right. I'm new to the distance/effort and have not figured it out yet. I'll try pulling in the reigns on the next one and see if my recovery is better. Thanks for input so far.
Dude, ten mile tempos can make you really tired. Maybe try doing them every other week? Or ease off a little bit like you suggested in another post. Good luck.
What's your target race distance?
hard ten milers sound like a workout you can do because you "can" do it. But to what purpose?
I had the same issue with 12 milers hard. All they did was make me very tired. I never adjusted and eventually stopped doing them.
Another point is that maybe you want to do the intervals too fast. If you have been well rested in the past, the times you run are going to be faster. Just because you ran slower times doesn't make the workout a bust. If you want to keep doing the 10 milers, you have just set a baseline on your interval times and can look to improve from there. If you continually get slower, then you know the 10 miler is the problem. If you get faster, then you are just adapting to the extra training and it should benefit you in the future.