Love2Run

Eva - nice to see you back. Looking your data in November, I see an alternating pattern of workouts that are way too hard and a lot of days of no run or not much running due to being too sore from the hard day. I think it would benefit you to even it out - slow down/cut the volume on the hard workouts, and be more consistent during the base runs. Incidentally 5x1000 with 10 seconds of rest in 3:30 still gives you 18:10 for the 5000 (17:30 running, 0:40 rest), but it might actually be harder than running the whole thing non-stop in 17:30. Whatever recovery you get in 10 seconds will probably be cancelled by extra effort to accelerate on the next interval.

Sasha, thanks for the helpful advice. I agree with you on the workouts. There is not much I can do about that, I have to do what the coach says. While I was coming back from my injury, I was only doing 5000m of running, gradually increasing speed. At that time I was seeing a very slow but steady improvement of my speed and I was enjoying running much more. After coach said I could start training with the rest of the team, the workouts became suddenly longer and harder, and I sometimes dread doing them. I think that may be part of my recent lack of motivation.

We usually only do two hard workouts a week with the rest longer slower runs, but since I have not been accustomed to the longer runs they also seem like hard workouts for me.

We have three training groups. I am in the slowest group, and that is also frustrating for me. I guess I want sudden improvement and want to be in the fastest group too soon. I need to be more patient.