How could this happen?

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I took Friday off, and tried to run again on Saturday. When I ran only half mile, I was tired, and
out of breath. Not too much but I had a bit of burning feeling in my lungs. I stopped running and
put my both hands at my waist and looked at the sky and said, "you gotta be kidding me!?!" in such
disappointment. What happened? I showed super-major improvement and then super-major failure. I
don't understand what is happening. Yes I admit that since Thursday, I am under a lot of stress. I
sleep 4 or 5 hours a day and eat once a day. Do you think it is the lack of sleep and protein
intake getting to me?

Has anybody experienced such major improvement and major failure? If so, how can you explain such
major improvement and failure?

Simple. Your training style goes like this: run yourself into the ground, get injured, rinse
and repeat.

When you run yourself into the ground, you will make improvements (which may come quite rapidly if
you're a beginner), until injury prevents you from training, or overtraining kills your performance.
Lack of sleep contributes to the problem, but it's only a very small part of it. If you want to get
anywhere, you need to do something a little more sophisticated than attempting to set a new personal
record on each run.

The problem is that you're simply not ready to train 35 miles a week (which is what running 5 miles
each day amounts to). The fact that you can run for 5 miles without stopping does not mean that you
can or should maintain 35 miles a week. There are posters here who have run marathons, but you don't
see them trying to run 190 miles per week. If they were to do that, they'd get injured, or they'd be
so severely overtrained that they'd get sick.

I'd suggest running 5 times a week, making 4 of the runs 2-3 miles at an easy pace (you should feel
like you could run the whole 5 miles if you wanted to), and do just one 5 mile run each week. As you
get comfortable with this training load (you can use the 5 mile runs as a guide), *gradually*
increase your milage.

Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi pegasus.rutgers.edu~elflordOpen ↗

I would not say that was unusual. First we all have good and bad days. In addition you body has not
figured out what is expected of it. It will take a few months to get your body use to what you are
expecting of it.

Take it slow and easy this time. Start easy and increase slowly.

--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

"Atici72" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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About a month ago or so I posted a message asking for help because I had

to run

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1.5 mile in 13 minutes at the police academy for physical test, and I was

so

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out of shape to run even 1 mile. After running a few laps at the running

track,

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I was feeling exhausted and out of breath without any energy to run

another

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step.

When I was at the police academy for the physical test, I was already

limping

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because I had a swollen right ankle as a result of pushing myself to the

limit

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during training. So, I ran 1.5 mile at the academy with a swollen right

ankle,

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and passed to physical test, but the swollen right ankle got worse and

pain got

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more intense. So, I put ice on my ankle and massaged every day. It took

nearly

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a month to recover from that injury.

After my right ankle healed up, I felt full of energy, and could barely

wait to

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run again. So, I put on the shorts and shoes and wanted to see if I could manage to run again 1.5
mile after a month of inactivity because I had to

get

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in perfect shape and prepare myself to run 5 miles before the police

academy

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starts in January.

When I started running something happened. I never got tired. I ran 1.5

mile,

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and was not out of breath and didn't have the burning feeling in my lungs

as a

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result of breathing too heavy. So, I kept running as much as I could... to

see

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how much more of this I could take. So, I ran 3 miles and thought to

myself

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that I was only 2 miles short of 5 miles. So, I kept running. When I was

at the

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4th mile, I felt the signs of fatigue, but it was not too bad. So I kept running until I ran 5
miles. I just wonder how I could run 5 miles now

because

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I could barely run 1.5 mile before. What happened all of a sudden? On

Monday I

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ran 5 miles, and thought to myself that I was just lucky and couldn't do

it

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again if I tried. So, I decided to try again on Tuesday. I ran another 5

miles.

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I started having a very minor pain again on my right ankle, and took

Wednesday

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off and did nothing. On Thursday in spite of the minor pain on my right

ankle,

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I ran 5.5 miles.

I took Friday off, and tried to run again on Saturday. When I ran only

half

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mile, I was tired, and out of breath. Not too much but I had a bit of

burning

Quoted message said:

feeling in my lungs. I stopped running and put my both hands at my waist

and

Quoted message said:

looked at the sky and said, "you gotta be kidding me!?!" in such disappointment. What happened? I
showed super-major improvement and then super-major failure. I don't understand what is happening.
Yes I admit

that

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since Thursday, I am under a lot of stress. I sleep 4 or 5 hours a day and

eat

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once a day. Do you think it is the lack of sleep and protein intake

getting to

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me?

Has anybody experienced such major improvement and major failure? If so,

how

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can you explain such major improvement and failure?

Thanks in advance...

I'd give you advice, but since you're going to become a pig I'll decline.

(Atici72) said:

About a month ago or so I posted a message asking for help because I had to run
1.5 mile in 13 minutes at the police academy for physical test, and I was so out of shape to run
even 1 mile. After running a few laps at the running track, I was feeling exhausted and out of
breath without any energy to run another step.

When I was at the police academy for the physical test, I was already limping because I had a
swollen right ankle as a result of pushing myself to the limit during training. So, I ran 1.5 mile
at the academy with a swollen right ankle, and passed to physical test, but the swollen right ankle
got worse and pain got more intense. So, I put ice on my ankle and massaged every day. It took
nearly a month to recover from that injury.

After my right ankle healed up, I felt full of energy, and could barely wait to run again. So, I
put on the shorts and shoes and wanted to see if I could manage to run again 1.5 mile after a month
of inactivity because I had to get in perfect shape and prepare myself to run 5 miles before the
police academy starts in January.

When I started running something happened. I never got tired. I ran 1.5 mile, and was not out of
breath and didn't have the burning feeling in my lungs as a result of breathing too heavy. So, I
kept running as much as I could... to see how much more of this I could take. So, I ran 3 miles and
thought to myself that I was only 2 miles short of 5 miles. So, I kept running. When I was at the
4th mile, I felt the signs of fatigue, but it was not too bad. So I kept running until I ran 5
miles. I just wonder how I could run 5 miles now because I could barely run 1.5 mile before. What
happened all of a sudden? On Monday I ran 5 miles, and thought to myself that I was just lucky and
couldn't do it again if I tried. So, I decided to try again on Tuesday. I ran another 5 miles.

I started having a very minor pain again on my right ankle, and took Wednesday off and did nothing.
On Thursday in spite of the minor pain on my right ankle, I ran 5.5 miles.

I took Friday off, and tried to run again on Saturday. When I ran only half mile, I was tired, and
out of breath. Not too much but I had a bit of burning feeling in my lungs. I stopped running and
put my both hands at my waist and looked at the sky and said, "you gotta be kidding me!?!" in such
disappointment. What happened? I showed super-major improvement and then super-major failure. I
don't understand what is happening. Yes I admit that since Thursday, I am under a lot of stress. I
sleep 4 or 5 hours a day and eat once a day. Do you think it is the lack of sleep and protein
intake getting to me?

Has anybody experienced such major improvement and major failure? If so, how can you explain such
major improvement and failure?

Thanks in advance...

Why does a cop need to be physically fit? Writing parking tickets, and sleeping in your cruiser
don't require any special physical skills.

Donovan and Joseph, thank you guys so much for your responses. Things you say make a lot of
sense. I need to have a systematical training schedule rather than getting out there and running
my lungs out.

Recruits at the police academy begin week one with a daily 1.5 mile run which increases by 10% per
week to a maximum of five miles at an 8 minute pace. I think it is better to follow the same pace by
starting with 1.5 mile and increasing it by 10% per week.

Thanks again

Donovan Rebbechi said:

The problem is that you're simply not ready to train 35 miles a week (which is what running 5 miles
each day amounts to). The fact that you can run for 5 miles without stopping does not mean that you
can or should maintain 35 miles a week. There are posters here who have run marathons, but you
don't see them trying to run 190 miles per week.

As if support were needed, my weekly average for a maiden 3h28 marathon was around 35 miles...