As someone who took a forced hiatus, I can testify to the power of a slow, methodical, kind rebuild. I didn’t know how hard my body was fighting to keep up until I learned what it felt like to have it NOT be fighting me all the time. Took a ruptured achilles to get there 😂
Ruptured achilles will stop you dead in your tracks (no pun intended haha) and force you to stop, sorry to hear that happened. Hope you are in a good rebuild and are able to enjoy running :-)
It is always great to hear from the professionals like you that heck yeah running is hard, especially after a down time. We amateur athletes who can run around 2:50 for the marathon have a notion in our minds that for people like you- it is always easier but the reality is when anyone comes back from a rest or down time or injury or any kind of break- a couple of weeks suck for sure more than ever. Even if it is a Sub 2:10 marathoner as well. When we are riding the highs we think this is way too good and when we get smacked by the lows we think what the fuck is this? will I have to run with this heavy quads or fatigued muscles till the finish line?
But everything revolves around impermanence. All the best to both the hemmings for the future & will be rooting for both of you from India.! <3
♥️ I used to get injured sometimes and have to rest. When Coach Neely told me to do pool running, I was low-key 🙄. Now I have a different problem. I never take breaks because I'm never injured! At 64, I'll take it!
Running is so hard! We forget it when we're in peak shape (not that my peak is even remotely close to yours) and we're shaving seconds off PBs. But after time off for whatever reason, we remember how hard it is. It's hard to run at a pace that used to be a recovery pace but is now as fast as you can go. It's hard to build the miles back up again slowly when you want to just pick up where you left off.
Before my last baby, I was so close to running a sub 25 min 5k. Losing all the fitness through pregnancy was tough. It was hard to celebrate the first sub-30 5k post-baby, even though it was worth celebrating because it was so far from where I'd been.
Sorry for the essay. I probably should have written my own article instead of hijacking the comments 😆
Ahh we LOVE this and please hijack the comments anytime 😆
You put this perfectly. Running humbles all of us, every single time. It’s wild how we can be in peak shape one season and then feel like we’re learning to run again the next. And yeah… that “recovery pace that suddenly feels like race pace” reality check hits HARD.
But that sub-30 post-baby 5k?? That’s grit, that’s patience, and that’s the definition of celebrating the real wins!
We’re so unfit right now… but it will feel so damn good to be able to say WE ARE SO BACK 🙌🏾
It definitely will!
As someone who took a forced hiatus, I can testify to the power of a slow, methodical, kind rebuild. I didn’t know how hard my body was fighting to keep up until I learned what it felt like to have it NOT be fighting me all the time. Took a ruptured achilles to get there 😂
Ruptured achilles will stop you dead in your tracks (no pun intended haha) and force you to stop, sorry to hear that happened. Hope you are in a good rebuild and are able to enjoy running :-)
It is always great to hear from the professionals like you that heck yeah running is hard, especially after a down time. We amateur athletes who can run around 2:50 for the marathon have a notion in our minds that for people like you- it is always easier but the reality is when anyone comes back from a rest or down time or injury or any kind of break- a couple of weeks suck for sure more than ever. Even if it is a Sub 2:10 marathoner as well. When we are riding the highs we think this is way too good and when we get smacked by the lows we think what the fuck is this? will I have to run with this heavy quads or fatigued muscles till the finish line?
But everything revolves around impermanence. All the best to both the hemmings for the future & will be rooting for both of you from India.! <3
So true on all levels! Everything does revolve around impermanence for sure
♥️ I used to get injured sometimes and have to rest. When Coach Neely told me to do pool running, I was low-key 🙄. Now I have a different problem. I never take breaks because I'm never injured! At 64, I'll take it!
That is a win never getting injured! Keep at it!
Write-up about my ultra over the weekend!
https://open.substack.com/pub/karlrysted/p/tortugas-mountain-24-hour-challenge?r=2jf7oz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Running is so hard! We forget it when we're in peak shape (not that my peak is even remotely close to yours) and we're shaving seconds off PBs. But after time off for whatever reason, we remember how hard it is. It's hard to run at a pace that used to be a recovery pace but is now as fast as you can go. It's hard to build the miles back up again slowly when you want to just pick up where you left off.
Before my last baby, I was so close to running a sub 25 min 5k. Losing all the fitness through pregnancy was tough. It was hard to celebrate the first sub-30 5k post-baby, even though it was worth celebrating because it was so far from where I'd been.
Sorry for the essay. I probably should have written my own article instead of hijacking the comments 😆
Ahh we LOVE this and please hijack the comments anytime 😆
You put this perfectly. Running humbles all of us, every single time. It’s wild how we can be in peak shape one season and then feel like we’re learning to run again the next. And yeah… that “recovery pace that suddenly feels like race pace” reality check hits HARD.
But that sub-30 post-baby 5k?? That’s grit, that’s patience, and that’s the definition of celebrating the real wins!