Heat was too much
Like I have written earlier, I´m doing 3-4 jobs at the same time. The reason for this is, that some years back I was the editor-in-chief of the running and skiing magazine and that magazine was ended very suddenly almost three years ago. I was without work for a while.
When one reaches the age of 40, it becomes harder to find a job. The older you get, the harder it becomes. That was also true with me, so I became a member in a working community. That system works well. The secretary of that community takes care of the social payments, taxes and salary. My responsibility is the get work from the open market.
During the normal week I´m working six days. My only freeday is sunday. Last saturday, before the work, that is around 8 am, I ran hard workout. The distance was 19 kilometres, and during it I did one 5 minutes and five three minutes intervalls. I that I should have recover myself, but instead I went to work.
Then on sunday, when the heat was around 25-28 celsius degrees, I ran 36 kilometres. Good workout with the speed between 4.10-4.30 for each kilometre. I was very satisfied because of my run. But because I had no time to sit down and be still after my intervall workout on saturday, the heat and lack of recovery really hit me on monday.
Monday I took day off, as it was planned, and tuesday I ran only around ten kilometres. Yesterday morning was again fine with 15 kilometres run and 700 meters of swimming. Last night I met a frriend in Helsinki, so no workout this morning which wsa unusual.
So the heat was too much, but the real reason of my tiredness lies in my overdoing. Last saturday I should have ran a little less, like three times five minutes or four times one kilometre. My mistake took three days away from my trainingdays.
So often I´m amazed of my stupedity. As an experienced runner and coach I should know all this, but it is easier to give instructions to other runners, whom I coach, that to do it myself.
During the rest of this week my training goes as follows: today easy 10 kilometres. Tomorrow morning 14-16 kilometres easy (4.10-20/km). Saturday 18-20 kilometres with 30-40 minutes steady state -run. Sunday belongs to the long run all the way over 30 kilometres.
I wish good workouts for everyone.
