I did a workout a few days ago and my legs have been pretty dead since then even though I've been running around the same mileage. I wanted to do a workout today but my legs felt really dead warming up and on the strides so I bagged it.. I am considering not doing another run today (though my mileage would take a big hit), or doing perhaps what Lydiard recommended and running long and really slow. Do you think that will help?
I'm not sure but once the dead legs went away breakthroughs started to come.
The thing is I haven't even been doing workouts THAT hard.. but since this one race where I wasn't well rested enough, my legs have been on and off dead.
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Yes just keep running slow.
Think about it this way. On your easy days you should be running so slow that you'd be embarrassed if your friends saw you.
I think that's the plan, I'll keep the mileage up with long slow runs but not introduce workouts until later.
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The thing is I haven't even been doing workouts THAT hard.. but since this one race where I wasn't well rested enough, my legs have been on and off dead.
How is your nutritional intake? Had any blood work done? Watch out for anemia and mono. Eat lots and varied. Hope you get your pep back soon!
I supplement iron regularly so I think I am fine that way.
went for a really slow run, started out slow and got a little faster but overall pace was still very slow (slowest i've run in a LONG time).. legs didn't feel as "dead". going to do 2 hours really easy tomorrow and then easy monday and attempt a workout tuesday.
The poster who asked about your nutrition has a good point. How about rest? Getting enough sleep, not just breaks from running?
It might be too late now, but if you've been feeling dead, a 2 hour long run probably isn't the best idea. Just a thought.
Why don't you go for a bike ride or something?
Yes, I've been pretty good on sleep. I havent done my 2 hour run yet today, but my easy 65 min run yesterday was fine (very slow). I was going to keep it realllly easy though.. the Lydiard way..
So that didn't go that well.. partly I think because it was so hot. I started out nice and slow and started to feel better/go faster around 45 minutes. But then I started feeling tired (my legs, breathing was fine) around an hour and then the last 30 minutes were really slow... cut the run short by 10 minutes and felt like I was crawling near the end and my legs were just dead. I will take a day off tomorrow. Really worried because I need to race really well in 2 weeks
http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=22635help me out here... wrote:
I did a workout a few days ago and my legs have been pretty dead since then even though I've been running around the same mileage. I wanted to do a workout today but my legs felt really dead warming up and on the strides so I bagged it.. I am considering not doing another run today (though my mileage would take a big hit), or doing perhaps what Lydiard recommended and running long and really slow. Do you think that will help?
Read: DIAGNOSIS: HEAVY-LEGGED SYNDROME
Pete seems to agree with Lydiard...
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Take a few days off, man. Your crappy run today just reinforces the fact that you are run down. It is definitely possible for you to run well in two weeks, but you need to listen to your body and back off for a little bit. If you don't I can guarantee that you will have a bad race. You are in good shape, you just need to rest up. Stop worrying so much, take 3 days off, and you will probably feel better. Give us an update later this week, and please do not let me come back here to say "I told you so" for a second time.
3 days seems a little excessive though..
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