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How are you getting on?
I'm getting to the end of cyclo-cross season, I've not really been training beyond an interval session and a run a week. I'm bored and did 10k today running.Did the plan for three weeks. Can't remember which one but it was one that was posted up here. Overdid it, was completely exhausted, then took a night off the schedule and haven't ran once since then, more than two months ago. Haven't been able to put myself into the mindset to get over it. Putting on weight, depressed, not sleeping well, hate my kids. So I can't say it worked out well for me.
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Sounds rough. Hope you can turn things around & have support with this.
When you're ready to run again, if you want help putting a manageable plan together I'm sure there's a few here would be happy to help, myself being one.
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Fuck.
I'm sorry if I've brought it all up.
I've had similar phases with bike "training". The best thing I found was to just go for a plod on a bike and not put any "this is training" on it.
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Och man it's tough. I go through similar phases pretty regularly, minus having kids.
Get unfit, put on weight, feel bad. Get motivated, start exercising, see improvements, overdo it, burn out/get injured, get unfit, put on weight, feel bad.As far as I'm aware it's a very common cycle. Maybe just go for a run. Just one. Don't put it in the context of a training plan or anything. Don't worry if it's a good or bad run. Just go for one and see how you feel. Then you'll be one run better than before. I find it really hard to get back going after "falling off" whether it's diet or exercise or simply being motivated enough to get out of bed in the morning.
One of the things I've found is that keeping up little efforts is more beneficial in the long term. I've got my weekly mileage targets, and missing them makes me feel bad, especially as several weeks missed start to pile up easily, and I start to feel some sort of anxiety about how I can "fix" this deficit by doing stupid long runs (which is often a bad idea if I've not been running much), when actually just going for a run, regardless of length or intensity, is the best thing to do.
Say you aim to run 3x per week, and do so, but then stop. You may feel that running less than 3x is somehow not enough as you're below your intended target and thus feel disappointed. But in reality, if you ran 1x per week consistently - you'd still make progress. And most importantly, managing to do anything - however big or small - is still better than doing nothing.
Hope that helps - fitting these things into modern life can be the hardest part of the battle sometimes.
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Chalfie
Nef
How are you getting on?
I'm getting to the end of cyclo-cross season, I've not really been training beyond an interval session and a run a week. I'm bored and did 10k today running.
I'd like to try and crack 22 and then 20.
Which plan did you go for?