Feeling confident after recent great workouts thought I could repeat the 2-mile test run. Jogged maybe 45 mins to Munkka, feeling tired and slow. Should I just pass it? Well, here I am and so is the competition. First mile is slow, 5.24, matching my feelings. It should have felt like warming up but it wasn’t. I had no idea of the pace, hoped it to be much faster. Second one I am able to pull a bit to have a decent 5.13 and 10.37 finish. Four secs quicker than last time (today there was more wind), also only four behind the leader (same guy, last time 15). But I did not feel good. Not at all. I didn’t feel flying like I should. On the way back I struggle more and a terrible thought surfaces: have I overtrained already?!<\/p>\n
Looking back I’ve done very high quality six days between the two mile tests. I haven’t run any fillers, just long ones and hard ones. I count three long ones: 25K, 20K and 20K (also today). Two hard ones (6 x 1K and 4 x 2K) in addition to the two milers. Total is about 90 km which is a lot to me. And it actually started a week or two earlier. No wonder I’m feeling tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Feeling confident after recent great workouts thought I could repeat the 2-mile test run. Jogged maybe 45 mins to Munkka, feeling tired and slow. Should I just pass it? Well, here I am and so is the competition. First mile is slow, 5.24, matching my feelings. It should have felt like warming up but it … Continue reading “Training too much, too hard?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}