Been trying to run 200k weeks but struggling. Sleeping hasn’t been great, often wake-up tired. Have had to bail out of a few workouts here and there but mostly trending upwards. In reading various threads they all say “you will be tired, it will pass.” I’ve hit 200k for 4 of the past 6 weeks with two of those weeks having an off day from feeling tired. Also work 40 hours per week. Should I keep pushing through or back-off to 160-180k?
Just Some Scrub wrote:
Been trying to run 200k weeks but struggling. Sleeping hasn’t been great, often wake-up tired. Have had to bail out of a few workouts here and there but mostly trending upwards. In reading various threads they all say “you will be tired, it will pass.” I’ve hit 200k for 4 of the past 6 weeks with two of those weeks having an off day from feeling tired. Also work 40 hours per week. Should I keep pushing through or back-off to 160-180k?
Never hit those numbers myself, any specific reason my you want to hit 200km? You body is under too much stress from the combination of physically (running), mental (work) or emotional (relationship), anything you can do for the latter two to reduce the stress?
The other stressor is diet, are you eating too late (less than 90mins before bed) and second what is your diet like? Getting enough vitamins, protein and minerals? Eating a lot of refined food and sugars or is it wholegrain and fresh produce?
Between those you should be able to workout why the mileage is impacting your workouts otherwise if you can’t back it off for several works and slowly build back up to 200km
I was going to sign up for my company's 401K, but I don't think I can run that far.
Diet is on point. No refine sugar. Pretty much all whole, real food. Minimally processed. Relationships are fine. I’m single, no family or girlfriend stress. Work isn’t stressful, just time consuming. I eat close to be by necessity. 30-60 minutes usually, due to getting home from work at 6:30-7 and cooking nearly every night. By the time I finish cooking and eating it’s 8 or after and I’m in bed by 9 for 6am wake-up to train.
You are attempting to train for some ultra events or 24hours race?
You realize that you are trying to run more kms in training that top pro marathon runners like Bekele or Kipchoge, which are also faster than you and are taking less time to reach these kms.
200k per week for what?
Are you training for a Marathon or ultra or you just want to hit 200 because it sounds good.
200k per week only makes sense if you are a pretty fast runner (2:20 Marathon or something like that) if not it doesn't make much sense.
What was your buildup to hitting 200km?
What is your normal/previous threshold?
And why 200km, specifically?
Just Some Scrub wrote:
Been trying to run 200k weeks but struggling. Sleeping hasn’t been great, often wake-up tired. Have had to bail out of a few workouts here and there but mostly trending upwards. In reading various threads they all say “you will be tired, it will pass.” I’ve hit 200k for 4 of the past 6 weeks with two of those weeks having an off day from feeling tired. Also work 40 hours per week. Should I keep pushing through or back-off to 160-180k?
3/10
nice try
Experimenting with higher mileage. I’ve averaged 160-180k before and that wasn’t very challenging. Planning on a fall marathon with a goal of 2:15. Have run under 14 minutes for 5k but think I can do better in the marathon than in the 5.
No way we believe you.
How many miles is that per week?
0/10 Okay, next.
Couldn’t care less if you believe me. This is the situation and I’m asking for help.
Before doing these things you need to know what you are doing with the internal and external loads, with the short-term or long-term training effects and know well the number of days and activities in the unloading periods.
Back down to 161 km/week
My hobbyjogger advice:
Scale up your cooking: find meals you like that you can cook big pots of so that you’re only cooking (missing out on rest/sleep) a few nights a week.
Integrate recovery weeks: do something like 1 week of goal mileage, 1 “recovery” week, 2 weeks at goal mileage, recovery week, 3 weeks at goal mileage, recovery week.
But, like others have mentioned, you’d have to go into a lot more detail about you’re training load to get specific advice.
Just Some Scrub wrote:
Been trying to run 200k weeks but struggling. Sleeping hasn’t been great, often wake-up tired. Have had to bail out of a few workouts here and there but mostly trending upwards. In reading various threads they all say “you will be tired, it will pass.” I’ve hit 200k for 4 of the past 6 weeks with two of those weeks having an off day from feeling tired. Also work 40 hours per week. Should I keep pushing through or back-off to 160-180k?
Back off some until you feel ready to go back up again.
3/10. Despite dropping clear references/parallels to Walmsley, you got a lot of bites.
If you had really been to the places you reference, then you'd already have your answers.