Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Another book

As I said yesterday I would share my thoughts on why I felt so sick over the weekend. I few years back I developed over-training syndrome because I was doing a long run of at least 20 to 25 miles every week,which, with my regular miles means I was running 40 to 50 miles a week. This was along with running trail runs of 50k and 50 miles along with my normal marathons. My body just shut down.  For over 2 years I had a hard time just getting out the door. It was horrible. I would put on my runnng shorts and shirt, then sit there in front of the TV for an hour, most of the time never getting out the door. I would start thinking about running and my body would start aching. I mean, I would hurt all over, like I was coming down with the flu. Mind and body were conspiring against me.I think that is still happening to me now when I train hard like I am doing. Monday when I was shamed into doing Insanity my mind and body told me I was sick. As I got into the exercise the endorfins kicked in and I was all of a sudden better.I need to remember this because witht he goals I have made for myself I will be training harder than ever. Yesterday I hit the treadmill for 3.39 miles then swam for an hour, which was over a half mile, burning 1164 calories. First time doing lap and it kicked my butt more than I thought it would. My weight this morning was 215.6. I took my pulse before getting out of bed and it was 59. I will post tomorrow on overtraining and the corralation between resting heart

1 comment:

  1. It's good that you understand when you need to back off a bit so you don't get burned out. I do the same thing to myself and it kills me even though I don't want to admit it. Take this past week for example. I am not in the shape I need to be to run around 40 miles this week but I did it anyways and I am paying for it. I guess I need to figure things out also. Love ya.

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