W6R3

[AlasdairW]

😢😂

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

After my W6R1 run on Wednesday being the ‘Best Run Ever’, this was my ‘Worst Run Ever!’

I know why - I’m doing too much on rest days.

Ok so

Problems:

1) Laura restarted herself about 3 mins into my warmup walk. No worries. I just walked to the start of the park. This gave me three mins extra warm up so no biggie.

2) calves were twinging all the way through the warm up walk. Couldn’t do anything about it. Think this is because of my ‘too much on rest days’

3) head was telling me not to start the run session, but I did anyway.

4) most of the way through the first run session head was telling me to stop. Left calf became very sore.

5) left calf wanted to cramp in the 3 min walk in the middle. Felt like I couldn’t flex my foot. Head told me to stop there.

6) duh deep and carried on. Longest 10 mins I’ve ever experienced. See all the items in point 4 and add both calves.

7) as soon as I was given permission to stop both calves were trying to explode and cramp. Almost had to crawl the cool down walk.

So as for my theory of ‘too much’, I’ve started trying to hit the goals my Garmin is giving me each day, including climbing 10 flights of stairs. The last couple of days I’ve been doing them all in one hit innmy hotel - but the Garmin has only been crediting me one flight for every 30 steps or so. As a result I’ve been doing a LOt of stair climbing that I’m not used to. Hence the sore / tight calves.

Guess I’m going to reign it in a bit and see if R3 is better.

Happy trails everyone !

[Kimbov Graduate]

It’s the way the cookie crumbles sometimes I think, good and bad runs.

Fantastic effort getting through it, next one will be better 💪👏🏃‍♂️

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Sounds like you need to ease back a bit.

Too much too soon is a common theme on this forum.

Take care.

[Buddy34 Graduate]

I know you want to do all this fitness stuff but look how it's affecting you. Maybe do a bit less on your rest days and see if it helps on your running days. You are doing great just doing too much 😊😊

[RunRunRun13 Graduate]

We all have good and bad runs and sometimes don’t even know why...I agree with others that I think you should rest more on your rest days...do you stretch before and after runs and on your rest days too ? This will help especially dynamic stretching before your run. Don’t be disheartened and maybe it’s your body saying slow down. Good luck with your next run 🏃‍♂️

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

You know why it happened..lessons learned...