I feel like a little boy who is being punished for doing something bad. Its weakening, depressing, and just flat out annoying. Well, I have been training for the last few four months for my first 5k race and ever since last week I have noticed my performance dropping.
My pace went down from an average of 8:26 per mile to a disheartening 9:02 per mile. My runs started feeling sluggish, heavy, and I didn't feel so happy from doing it anymore. The same thing also happened to my strength training routine when I could barely finish off my reps and my warm ups were becoming a chore themselves.
So, after some research and feedback from the people at takbo.ph, we have come to the conclusion that I have been over training and I have to dial it down a little bit. Well, I guess I've just been feeling quite sad today cause I wasn't able to do my routine run today. It feels different not being able to run when you want to, I know that I want to, but running will just do more harm then good at this point in my training. I just gotta suck it up right now.
Next week.. Im looking forward to coming back to training =)
"Relish the bad training runs. Without them it's difficult to recognize, much less appreciate, the good ones." -Pat Teske
