In my last few races (800-3200) I have ran terrible times relative to what my workouts show and my place on my team compared to workouts. When I finish the race my legs don't feel sore or tired. However, during the race it feels like my legs aren't getting enough oxygen or can't process oxygen quick enough and I have no energy to go faster and typically slow down a lot towards the end of the race.
How would you explain this phenomena?
I clicked on your thread and started to read the first sentence. As soon as I saw it was running-related, I stopped reading and posted this.
Your legs aren't getting enough oxygen or processing it quickly enough, like you said.
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Your legs aren't getting enough oxygen or processing it quickly enough, like you said.
What affects that? Why is it that in workouts I'm not having the same sensation? Also how can I improve that to race where I should be?
Are you doing all out time trials of your race distance as workouts?
Most people who have the trouble you describe do workouts of reps as a series of "races" with rests and wonder why they can't put it all together in a race.
Don't race your workouts.
Sounds a bit like anemia. Get your iron tested. Otherwise, you probably aren't recovering enough during/after your workouts.
I'm not. My workouts are typically shorter intervals at about race pace. I don't leave workouts feeling exhausted and finish the last intervals strong.
Take a day off once a week.
1) what is your mileage? Did you get a good aerobic base?
2) what surface are you doing most of your training on?
Are you getting a good warm up? If you are doing a lot of cut down intervals and finish strong in those try to replicate that for your race. If you have been doing things like 10 x 400 and you feel better as you go, then do the same for a race warm up. If you usually finish 400s in 65 seconds and that is faster then Date pace do this. 1mile easy. 1 x400 68, 2x 200 @ 32 full recovery
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