Ooooh boy today was a doozy. I thought I'd be okay, I got in my two Couch 2 5K runs on Sunday and Tuesday while I was on vacation, I did an upper body/core workout yesterday morning, then this morning I did a legs workout...
I dunno if its that I'm a few hours behind on sleep from vacay, the fact that I lifted weights two days a row and then tried to run, or that it was a leg day and I shouldn't try to run on a leg day (this was the first time I tried that), or most likely a combination of all three....but I made it into 16 minutes of my Week 5, Day 1 run...just a few 5 minute runs, not that big of a deal, I was doing 5 minutes and 3 minutes through Tuesday already. Anyway, I could hardly catch my breath, moving my arms hurt (sore from lifting yesterday), my legs were starting to get tired from my leg workout...I just couldn't cut it...I had to slow down, so I let myself walk for 3 minutes to see if that was all I needed, I tried to run again, could only make it a minute...yup...DONE.
So I did not count this as Day 1 of Week 5, I just chalked it us as "a run" and I tried....we'll try again Saturday....this was the first time I couldn't finish a C25K workout...I wont' be doing them on leg days anymore.
Has something like this happened to anyone else?
3 comments:
Yep, sounds like you might have overdone it a bit. I get feeling like that whenever I'm overdue for a rest day!
I thought that maybe vacation with just running twice was enough "rest" but now that I think about it...I got up really early and ran on Tuesday, then went to bed late after road tripping all day, then got up early and lifted weights on Wednesday, got to bed around 11pm and got up at 6am and did a leg workout today, and then tried to run..oops, haha.
YEP! Been there, done that! I love C25K so much I tried being a rockstar and running it every day! Give it a few days, and get in lots of stretching, you'll be good as new in no time!
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