Fat or just tired?

I will say this: reducing your inflammation will do way more for your running times thantraining doubles would at this point. The reason 3-4 miles feels like a slog is because of the inflammation. Once the inflammation goes and your body is detoxed, those same runs will feel like a breeze and easy pace (10:30ish) will feel like you are floating.

A lot of people with autoimmune also have chemical sensitivity so make sure you reduce your exposure to pollution and nasty dyes and chemicals. Autoimmune protocol diet (research this) helps immensely, cutting out processed (even gluten free) foods is a must for getting back to full health.

I agree with some of this (I agree that eliminating toxic foods help) but going keto is unnecessary, works for some but depletes others. You still need healthy fats and carbs. Your metabolism (especially with thyroid problems) may not be in a place where it can actually effectively switch to keto, whether or not it workd for healthy people I don’t know, but with autoimmune our bodies work differently.

Personally, this is what I eat on an average day to keep my autoimmune in relative remission (to a point where I have the energy to train and manage life and reduce fatigue, no major inflammation markers in blood test):

- hummus and seasoned lentils (or beans) in coconut wrap

- cashew butter and apple slices

- roast chicken (skin on, good source of healthy fats if organic), potatoes in olive oil, garlic and rosemary with a ood serving of greens (steamed brocolli and green beans)

- lentil soup with a few squares of dark chocolate

As far as supplements go I recommended taking 5 teaspoonfuls of high quality omega 3 a day. With autoimmune, relaxation and detox are very important seeing as our bodies are RIFE with tension (this makes it harder for our muscles to be relaxed in runs thus inhibiting our ability to adapt and respond the training we are doing) so having a magnesium salt bath 3x a week would help with that. This helps inflammation. Replace coffee with herbal tea (the brand “pukka” do some really nice flavours and use organic ingredients and tea bags only).

markeroon wrote:

Some of you are so arrogant and condescending, and should drop the hobbyjogger nonsense because there are lots of faster people in this board who could lob the same criticisms at you.

It's not her running times, which are actually quite good all things considering, that make her a hobbyjogger.

It's the obsession with paces on every training run.

It's the running 2 miles on the treadmill 30 seconds faster than 10k pace.

It's the freaking out when you can't run a PR every single day especially after taking an intentional break.

These things are hobbyjogger. That's NOT an insult. It is merely a label.

Best of luck to the OP.

Ironic....

Which is actually my username.

Because this is actually the reason I'm posting here... For advice... as a newbie. Apparently if I knew what I was doing I wouldn't need to be posting on the message board to ask for advice!

I don't try to set a PR for every run. In the 18 months I've been running I learned that one fairly quickly. But in essence, because I can only run about three times a week, I am training for three different races each week. A 5k, 10K, and a half marathon. So every week is one sprint like run, one tempo run, and one long run. That is been my training schedule up to now. I'm ready and willing to make some changes. I don't have a choice right now because I can't maintain that schedule any longer.

I have done 6 half marathons and countless number of other races in the last 14 months or so. I have no desire to do a full marathon at this point. Because I know now that your body can jump back quick enough from a half marathon where you can do 6 in the first year so that you've even started running to begin with! I have also learned that I seem to struggle at the two-week mark. Two weeks post a half marathon I can barely go out and do three miles at half marathon pace. My half marathon pace is obviously significantly slower than my 5K pace. So I can truly feel the struggle.

But we're looking at 5 weeks now. And I'm still feeling that way. And I don't know if it's because I went ahead and got lazy and got a bit fat ( exaggerating, I get it am within normal weight but still...) or if it's because I crossed trained like a junkie within the first week of completely my last half marathon and now I'm exhausted because my body never really took a break from the cardio efforts.

That's all. Just looking for some solid advice on what to do now for training. I like some of the advice I got about

increasing easy miles which is something I have yet to try to do, working more on shorter workouts with speed. Those are all different. Admittedly, last year was my first year running in the snow, I thought I would hate it, and I freaking loved it! Right now I don't know if I would be feeling it though

Literally, my mother just had triple bypass surgery today. There were tears and fears (cue 80's band). So the idea of feeling any kind of run is pretty ridiculous to me. And yet, it is the first thing on my mind for the morning before I go to the hospital because I know it is my stress reliever. Can I get it done on a treadmill at her local Y? Should I attempt to do it in the dark as a single female in the winter? Did I pack the right clothes with me for an outdoor run? You know i really could do the treadmill... and sometimes my stress reliever is an easy-going don't wear the watch and enjoy the Christmas lights run and other times it's see if I can't beat the **** out of myself kind of run.

I don't exactly know what separates a hobby jogger from a non hobby jogger, other than times... but I'm willing to bet there's a lot of shared ground.