burnout

[ZEPPELIN]

ok well last weekend i went skiing at Jack Frost in PA and after i went skiing i went for a 6 mile run (3 miles up the mountain to the lodge, and 3 miles back)

then on sunday i did 4.5 because i was feeling really tired, like burnt out sorta

then on mon i felt fine did a 6 miler

tuesday consisted of a 1000-500-400-300-200-100 workout felt fatigued real bad was behind the group the whole time

wednesday was 5 miles i felt fine

today i did 6 and i felt like absolute doo doo

any ideas?
thanks

[PurpleHaze]

You probably need some good old Vitamin R(est). You might have just been working too hard lately without giving your body any time to recover. I suggest you take a day off or at least do a very short run so your body can rest.

[ZEPPELIN]

alright thanks i thought i needed a day off besides my last indoor meet is in two weeks

[varsitycardinal08]

is 2 weeks enough to recover from freshman xc season, freshman track season, and soph xc season straight?

[Swoosh13]

tell me you don't honestly think your burnt out at this point in the season. And for the poster that asked about the 2 weeks rest, no that is not enough at all

[bdaniels]

is 2 weeks enough to recover from freshman xc season, freshman track season, and soph xc season straight?

I'd do a month...

But, everyone's different!

bd

[Aragorn Elessar]

I'd take off about 30 minutes to 48 hours after the end of track or xc season before starting base training for the next season. To poster one, it is hard to tell if you should take off without you telling your average mpw. Since you have implied that those runs were strenous effort, you should probably do a few days easy or maybe take a day and just cross train and then do a day or 2 easy. Only you know your body.

[watchout]

Only you can prevent forest fires.

Thanks Smoky!

Anyways, most the posters are right. Listen to your body. If you are tired after an easy run, then you are over doing it and should take a day off and cut back slightly on the intensity/volume of the work.

But if you are tired after a real hard run, that's expected. Hard runs are supposed to tire you out, and that would carry over to the next day. One thing to think about is maybe running harder runs only every three days instead of two, if that is the situation.

By your descriptions, it doesn't sound like those are hard runs the day before your fatigue, unless you simply have no aerobic ability at this point and 5 or 6 miles is too far for you. So my suggestion: Just take a day off, and ease up the tempo a little on your runs. Just because you feel fine one day, doesn't mean your body is rested enough. This could be a sign of overtraining.

[ATDI]

burnout is 100% mental unless you're anemic, not eating right or enough, or not getting enough rest. You probably just need to relax and get some more sleep.

[watchout]

burnout is 100% mental unless you're anemic, not eating right or enough, or not getting enough rest. You probably just need to relax and get some more sleep.

and high school athletes often don't get enough rest, so burnout is usually not 100% mental :)

[bdaniels]

and high school athletes often don't get enough rest, so burnout is usually not 100% mental :)

QFBrillance

BRAVO!!
BRAVO!!

bd

[K.Mart]

and high school athletes often don't get enough rest, so burnout is usually not 100% mental :)

qfe

[sjm1368]

that would be called overtraining. It's symentics but I think most people think of burnout as the mental aspect and overtraining as the physical aspect.

[bdaniels]

that would be called overtraining. It's symentics but I think most people think of burnout as the mental aspect and overtraining as the physical aspect.

I think that the connection that we're trying to draw, though, is that overtraining "can lead to" burnout in a lot of cases. I've been mentally burned out and totally turned off to running well due to overracing before, so I know how it is. If you're physically unable to perform at the level that you expect, then your mentality is extremely vulnerable to collapse. We're just saying that there's a strong link between the two; there's nearly a direct correlation.

bd