My. Legs. Hate. Me. Okay, so I have been so tired since Saturday's race. I had speed work planned for Monday but was too sore so I put it off a day. Well lets just say I have postponed it everyday till this morning. I made myself go to the track whether my body liked it or not. Surely I am in better shape than I am giving myself credit for...right? Wrong. I need to listen to my body more and today that was evident to me. I woke up and ran to the track at 6 am.feeling a little sluggish but fine. My plan was 6X1200 starting at 6:00min/mi pace and working down each interval with a minute rest in between. That plan went south after my first 800m. My legs and lungs were spent. Yep. Okay, so 2X800's and the rest 1200's, ya know, to get my body going. Well, after 400m I knew I was in trouble. Feeling discouraged and wondering what I was going to do, I decided to ask a group of women runners (6) on the track what they were doing (clearly they were doing intervals). They invited me to join them and since I had no clear purpose or plan at that point, I did and had fun. It was clear they were all at different levels but GREAT company and so nice. After a few intervals on my own and some with the girls, I ended up doing 3x 800 and 4x400 with half the distance rest. The order went 800 (3:03), 400 (1:29), 400(132), 800 (2:58) 400 (1:22), 400 (1:24), 800 (3:10). I tried to stride out my last 800 because my legs were not happy. I'm not going to lie, this workout was not working for me today. My legs and lungs were spent to begin with. It would have been intersting to see where my heart rate was at, but Garmin betrayed me again and did not pick up my HR while I was wearing my monitor today. I think I need to take the rest of the week easy or I bet I get sick or injured. You know how you can just feel something coming? Anyway, I am getting pretty nervous about my legs fully recovering before TOU. I didn't know they would be this worn out from my half or I might have planned my races differently. Have any of you had this issue with running a race 3-4 weeks before a marathon and having soreness as an issue? I would love the comfort/advice right now, pretty worried. I have a 22 long run this Saturday with the last 10 as a race simulation but I might need to postponed that for next week...or should I just start tapering all together now? Ugh.
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