Can someone help me explain this phenomenon

The more of a runner you become the harder it is to run unless you are in either training or racing mode.

Your scenario is completely normal, especially with a full stomach and a bit of fatigue.

SMJO wrote:

The more of a runner you become the harder it is to run unless you are in either training or racing mode.

Can you expand more on that? I'm interested in what you mean.

Limey UK runner wrote:

SMJO wrote:

The more of a runner you become the harder it is to run unless you are in either training or racing mode.

Can you expand more on that? I'm interested in what you mean.

He's making spit up.

Limey UK runner wrote:

SMJO wrote:

The more of a runner you become the harder it is to run unless you are in either training or racing mode.

Can you expand more on that? I'm interested in what you mean.

Yeah, it makes no sense.

Lackluster troll effort.

No warm up

I huff and puff my way to an 8:00 first mile and an hour later I am cruising along at 6:40 or 6:50 pace with less effort.

It's harder for a runner to run if he is not running.

Weak half 'thon training, need more strength, hit the weights, do short intervals like mile repeats or even 400s.

clearly you should have raced the kid on the 'crete

As long as you looked relaxed it doesn't really matter.

If you're older than 35 and not in the racing mindset running "fast" is, well, difficult. I ran a marathon last fall and averaged around 6:15 for the last 10 miles - even hit a couple of 6:05s. There's no way I could drop everything right now and hit anything under a 7:30.

You were tired from your workout.

Not sure how that is hard to understand. Runners often only run if they are training or racing. Ask a long time distance runner to suddenly take off pretty fast without getting any sort of game face on and he's going to move like a Kenyan in the first few steps of the first run of the day.

The body is very good at saving itself for trained efforts and shutting down the rest of the time.

Clearly you guys are still noobs.

I can and have done that, and ive got about 25000 miles on my legs. You are wrong.

Is that a lot of miles to you?

Do many people routinely end up in a scenario where they suddenly have to take off at close to half pace? When does that happen to you?

Now it's on you to explain why it happens to me and the OP and anyone else who has had this phenomenon happen to them.

Go.

hope 49 is middle age wrote:

No warm up

I huff and puff my way to an 8:00 first mile and an hour later I am cruising along at 6:40 or 6:50 pace with less effort.

OP here. I'm 46. I actually thought it was more the food in the belly than the lack of warmup or fatigue from the earlier run. I assume all three contributed. But if I knew, I wouldn't be posting here. Has something like this happened to anyone else? It really felt like practically a full sprint effort. Weird.

You can be in catabolic or anabolic state, but not both at once. Exercise is a catabolic state, where you burn fuel into kinetic energy.

A couple hours after exercise, and after a meal, you switch to an anabolic state. Your ability to output kinetic energy is switched off and your metabolism is diverted to building new tissue and replenishing glycogen. That's why people just sit around doing nothing after dinner. The anabolic state continues through the night as you sleep.