LateRunnerPhil wrote:
Tjuday wrote:
Good progress. Very good indeed. But it's 48s to 15:30 as per the thread title - but you're moving well.
Fingers crossed!
I got bad news everyone. Last September I raced a 5k on the roads in ~16:15. I did a long run the next day with massive fatigue and then got very sick afterwards.
Last Sunday I did a 5k TT on the track - 16:18, so just 3 seconds below my PB. Compared to last year, I wasn't hurting badly and my breathing seemed heavy but normal, last year I was struggling to hang on the top female and was hyperventilating/weird breathing (the only one in the group of ~5) and also felt some fatigue/weakness in my legs.
However, my metabolism got completely screwed last Sunday, and after 2k in I was thinking to give up the TT and go to the toilet, but since the TT started very well I decided to hang on. Afterwards I went to the track toilet and was a mess, vomiting and trying to stay alive. Did a 20 min CD, ate ice cream afterwards and lots of other food.
The next 2 days I spent just eating (6000+ kcal each day, even a lot for me and I usually eat 5000) and sitting in front of the PC feeling very bad. Yesterday I went for a run again, got rolling at one point but then died after 20 min and struggled home. Today I did another run, but wasn't able to break 9 min/mile. Once I was home, I was freezing/shivering, and now I feel like I'm overheating. The 5k TT made me sick again, like the race last year. I also think that massively overeating also causes problems. Now I'm trying to starve a little bit and try to get away with ~3000 kcal a day.
I was able to race 5k's in ~3:20-3:25 and not get sick last year, but 3:15/k seems to completely break down my body. Maybe it has to do with the humid weather (each day very humid for weeks) that seems to have a huge effect on me, even if temperatures are fine and it's cloudy.
My 3k, 5k and 10k times are all in line right now so it's probably not "mental weakness" or "pacing issues" but I might be around my limits for now. The only hope is that the 5k didn't hurt that much, it was just my body/metabolism breaking down and probably constant overeating/hunger, so maybe if I optimize some things there I still have a shot for a good 5k time in a race. For now I'll try to get healthy and recover and then start very easy/casual with training.