01-10-2012, 07:02 AM
Good morning TheEd
I ended last 3rd week of the build-up. Most sessions involving the running relaxed concept went according to the plan and felt ok. Then on Thursday I did the 5x8' fartlek but I don't know if it's because of the previous day I did some leg strength training but I felt very weak on this session.
After some light chest and triceps training I tried the session and I was only able to do 3x8' instead of 5 reps. I felt really struggling at no-so-fast 4:15 per interval and my HR wasn't lowering from 160 bpm even in the 2' recoveries running at near 5:30-6' avg pace so I call it a day. In fact I had been just feeling weak the first moment I put my feet on the gym :/
Then on Friday I took full rest, no gym, no running and on Saturday tried the 4K time trial. It went really bad, started at 3:45 pace and only managed to run 3K, I had the feeling I was running fast like 3:30 but the Garmin just was showing between 3:45-3:50. I couldn't believe it and by the 3rd km I was so praying to stop that I did so and call it a day again, didn't want to push it really far. Ran a 2Km cool-down feeling fine at 4:40 to home...
So don't really know what to do. Since I started taking the iron shots I can tell I'm feeling a little bit better in a global way but there are some things still troubling me. It has been some time that I have strange feelings both in legs and arms. They feel really numb when I woke up and it doesn't clear completely during the day. It's really weird and it happens more on the left side of the body. Some other days I feel bad as light-headed or spaced out. Also legs feel heavy almost always and it doesn't seem to get better even if I took full rest, in fact maybe I feel worse (like when I was at Paris and had rest from running and came back worse).
I'm going to start seen some doctors because I'm really concerned. I feel bad in a global way and I'm not enjoying neither going to the gym nor my running sessions and it's sad, I need to get better in order to start having fun again.
Until I can manage to get better I think I will stop doing the cycles and just train a little bit by feeling to maintain as much as I can. Then when I feel better I may re-join the cycles again, now I don't have the necessary energy to do so
Thank you very much again for all the help and advice, will keep an eye on everyone here as they seem to be doing very well and hope I can rejoin the cycles any time soon.
I ended last 3rd week of the build-up. Most sessions involving the running relaxed concept went according to the plan and felt ok. Then on Thursday I did the 5x8' fartlek but I don't know if it's because of the previous day I did some leg strength training but I felt very weak on this session.
After some light chest and triceps training I tried the session and I was only able to do 3x8' instead of 5 reps. I felt really struggling at no-so-fast 4:15 per interval and my HR wasn't lowering from 160 bpm even in the 2' recoveries running at near 5:30-6' avg pace so I call it a day. In fact I had been just feeling weak the first moment I put my feet on the gym :/
Then on Friday I took full rest, no gym, no running and on Saturday tried the 4K time trial. It went really bad, started at 3:45 pace and only managed to run 3K, I had the feeling I was running fast like 3:30 but the Garmin just was showing between 3:45-3:50. I couldn't believe it and by the 3rd km I was so praying to stop that I did so and call it a day again, didn't want to push it really far. Ran a 2Km cool-down feeling fine at 4:40 to home...
So don't really know what to do. Since I started taking the iron shots I can tell I'm feeling a little bit better in a global way but there are some things still troubling me. It has been some time that I have strange feelings both in legs and arms. They feel really numb when I woke up and it doesn't clear completely during the day. It's really weird and it happens more on the left side of the body. Some other days I feel bad as light-headed or spaced out. Also legs feel heavy almost always and it doesn't seem to get better even if I took full rest, in fact maybe I feel worse (like when I was at Paris and had rest from running and came back worse).
I'm going to start seen some doctors because I'm really concerned. I feel bad in a global way and I'm not enjoying neither going to the gym nor my running sessions and it's sad, I need to get better in order to start having fun again.
Until I can manage to get better I think I will stop doing the cycles and just train a little bit by feeling to maintain as much as I can. Then when I feel better I may re-join the cycles again, now I don't have the necessary energy to do so
Thank you very much again for all the help and advice, will keep an eye on everyone here as they seem to be doing very well and hope I can rejoin the cycles any time soon.