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March 21, 2005
An Idea
As I was sitting here trying to think of a title, an idea crossed my mind. The thought I was having was that writing every day about how I have not recovered from my race that was over a week ago is prolonging my recovery. Instead of putting each run behind me, I re-living each one later on in the day. I think that it is only because I am slightly frustrated that I am thinking this way.
I must have eaten something that really did not agree with me last night. I barely slept and had some serious GI issues during my morning run. I felt like I was going to lose it on both ends. I could not get home fast enough to make me happy. My morning observation was that it is definitely getting light out earlier. The battery in my headlamp conked out about halfway through my run, but the sun was almost peeking out by the time I was finishing up.
This evening was my first attempted workout. All day at work I was having some GI problems and I thought that they were resolved by the time I got to the track, but I knew on the first interval that they were not resolved. We were supposed to switch to doing 600s tonight, but none of us really felt up to doing the faster intervals. We opted to do another week of 800s. I timed the first one, a 3:06, but if felt much harder. The second one was a 3:09 and I could tell that this was not going to be a workout that was going to go my way. At this point, we lapped J who is jogging his way back from injury who advised me to turn off the watch and just push and cruise. I managed to slog my way through all 6 800s. Again, I need to remember that it has only been 8 days since I seriously taxed my body. Recovery takes time. It is going to be my mantra for the next week.
Tomorrow is the dreaded staff meeting. The memo we received regarding this meeting stated, "wear construction boots, or other steel toed shoes, as many toes will be stepped on". Really makes me want to go. Hopefully, I'll feel better tomorrow so that I can run my frustrations out after the meeting.
Posted by Blondie at March 21, 2005 08:11 PM
Comments
Good luck at your staff meeting--I hope you get to do some toe stomping of your own. After the week you've had, I think you deserve it. That, or a pint of Ben & Jerry's!
Posted by: Jessie at March 22, 2005 10:01 PM
as a wise person once told me: "it's easy to go hard and hard to go easy." once you fall into that rut of training hard and consistent, it's hard to climb out for proper recovery. you've got a long, promising season ahead, so don't get impatient with yourself now! please also recognise that other stressors in your life are eating your energy right now, and cut yourself a little slack.
hope your meeting went well, and my best to your mum.
Posted by: finn at March 23, 2005 10:27 AM