I was supposed to run 5 miles today, but I just died and couldn’t make it.  I felt terrible after the first mile and I pushed myself to run an extra couple miles so I would have run at least 3 miles, but I couldn’t make the full 5 miles.

I have run 5 miles on 3 previous Sundays and last week Sunday it was super easy.  I felt as though I could have gone another mile.

It’s now time to take a step back and evaluate what went wrong.  I think the most obvious problem is that I may be doing too much exercise on my non-running days.  In the last 1-2 weeks, I’ve been doing 1 hour on the elliptical trainer AND 20-40 mins on the days that I’ve been running 2-3 miles.  I think my legs are just too tired.

I’m going to try to do this week with just running and see how that works out.

Posted by derek in Training