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 2015-05-16 8:37 PM |
 643   |  Subject: Fast one week, slow the nextNormally I just push through bad days but I'm on a 2 week streak now and am a little concerned. A little background: ~1.5 months ago I somehow messed up the tendon in my left leg (overuse?). It's still healing but the tendon that helps me move my foot up and down is not 100%. Normally it hurts for 1-2 days after I run and then I don't notice it at all. Well 1.5 months ago, when I first got it, it hurt for a week after running 20 miles. That told me that something is messed up and I pretty much didn't run for 5 weeks (maybe 5 runs at 2-5 miles each time to test the waters). 2 weeks ago I decided to run a 1/2 marathon (signed up for full but knew that was too much). I told myself I'd just go as long as I could and then walk off the course if things hurt. It hurt a little but I finished it but I know I pushed myself too hard since I was at my LT HR for 1.5 hours. The following week I got sick 3 days after (grr...friend and his kids are like germ magnets), so I didn't work out until the weekend. I ran that weekend and was slower than expected but I just tossed it up from just getting over a cold. Well this week I did my bike workout and I was dogging it majorly. I also ran today and my HR was 5 bpm higher for a pace that's 1:00-1:30 slower than a pace I had 2 months ago (slow long run day). I know I'm not 100% with tendon but this seems a little extreme. Tendon is probably 85-90% healed but even biking was really hard this week (zero pain from biking...appears to be running only injury/pain). Anyone have any experiences like this? Fatigue from the race still maybe? I'm a little concerned since I have a tri in 3 weeks. |
| 2015-05-18 5:55 AM in reply to: Blastman |
Champion 7136   Knoxville area | Subject: RE: Fast one week, slow the next It's tough to guess on things like that (other than of course the nagging injury not helping you out.) This year, in an attempt to train smarter I have started monitoring my HRV (Heart Rate Variability) to monitor my fatigue day to day (and week to week/month to month) if you are willing to use the information it can shed some light on "why" some days feel really hard. I know nobody wants to hear it, but a simple answer is to take some time to recover and heal up... Take care of your body... if you don't you can end up like I did and forced to take months off. |
| 2015-05-18 6:19 PM in reply to: Blastman |
Master 2759 Los Angeles, CA | Subject: RE: Fast one week, slow the next Sounds to me your body is telling you it needs to rest and heal. I recommend listening to it. |
| 2015-05-18 9:49 PM in reply to: Blastman |
1055 | Subject: RE: Fast one week, slow the next HR up, slower pace. . . it was hot and humid the past couple days in my neck of the woods, how bout by you? |
| 2015-05-18 10:53 PM in reply to: ziggie204 |
| 643 | Subject: RE: Fast one week, slow the next It has been warmer here but not by much. My tendon feels pretty good now. I ran Saturday at my horrible pace and was just plane exhausted. Tendon ached that night but felt fine by noon on Sunday. I'm going to to try a track workout tomorrow and see how I do. I compared last week's track workout with one I did last year and it was way slower and my HR was much higher too. I'm hoping it was just a bug but I don't have that unstoppable feeling like I had 2 months ago. |
| 2015-05-19 1:03 PM in reply to: Blastman |
Extreme Veteran 5722 | Subject: RE: Fast one week, slow the next Originally posted by Blastman It has been warmer here but not by much. My tendon feels pretty good now. I ran Saturday at my horrible pace and was just plane exhausted. Tendon ached that night but felt fine by noon on Sunday. I'm going to to try a track workout tomorrow and see how I do. I compared last week's track workout with one I did last year and it was way slower and my HR was much higher too. I'm hoping it was just a bug but I don't have that unstoppable feeling like I had 2 months ago. Like Chris I monitor my HRV and most often bad workouts are correlated with bad HRV I have a really good HR to pace or HR to power correlation so measuring "bad workouts" on the bike and run is easy For the swim, I still can't figure out why some days are just "off". I think hard bikes the day before a swim have more impact than anything else. So does a bad HRV day. |
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