I have been training quite hard recently. As well as the new o season, I am also looking forward to a marathon over the South Downs at the end of next month.
However... I am following a marathon training programme, but on the rest days I have terrible trouble sleeping. It's almost as if I now need to have run for at least an hour per day to have any sense of a normal sleep pattern. On rest days I have trouble getting off to sleep, and then keep waking up.
Is this a common problem? Any has anyone got any tips??
Thanks,
Rob.
Rest days and sleep
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You say you've been training hard recently, then this could be the key reason for your sleeping problems. Perhaps you are on the crest of the hill between training at your optimal level and overtraining. When you're body is working hard but not being given enough time to recover, the difficulty you find sleeping on rest days maybe a signal from your body that its being worked too hard without enough recovery.
Try very slightly easing back your marathon training, reduce the mileage and intensity just a little, and see if this helps you sleep on rest days. If it does you probably can conclude that you were training a bit too hard before and need a slightly slower build up than whats written in your plan
Good luck
Try very slightly easing back your marathon training, reduce the mileage and intensity just a little, and see if this helps you sleep on rest days. If it does you probably can conclude that you were training a bit too hard before and need a slightly slower build up than whats written in your plan
Good luck
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Dids may be right - try Googling 'overtraining' and you will find loads of articles all of which say slightly different things about the causes, symptoms and treatment of overtraining. Most agree that disturbed sleep is a pretty good indicator, although other symptoms include 'chronic fatigue, delayed recovery from training and competition, loss of enjoyment in running, muscle pain, muscle weakness, headaches, sleep disturbance and cognitive complaints'.
Do you have any of these other symptoms?
Do you normally train in the evening? It may be that your body has got used to a process of preparing to sleep that includes your training and the rest of your post-training routine (eat some pasta, drink a bottle of beer and watch telly?) What do you do different on the non-training nights? Possibly you are using the additional time to catch up on work or doing something else with a bit of stress involved, and it is this stress that is leading to disturbed sleep.
Do you have any of these other symptoms?
Do you normally train in the evening? It may be that your body has got used to a process of preparing to sleep that includes your training and the rest of your post-training routine (eat some pasta, drink a bottle of beer and watch telly?) What do you do different on the non-training nights? Possibly you are using the additional time to catch up on work or doing something else with a bit of stress involved, and it is this stress that is leading to disturbed sleep.
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Well, I've been forced to rest for a few days because the area above my right ankle has started to swell up after each run. My ankle has been hurting since the Lakes event at Angle Tarn, but it didn't seem to get worse during training.
Looking through the list of possible symptoms that you mention Neil, I don't really recognise too many - though after running in a half marathon and a 15 mile race recently I felt that on each occasion my enthusiasm for running had waned in the following week.
I plan to run again on Thursday (which will have been a 5 day break) and then check what's happening with the ankle. I wish I knew for sure whether or not continuing to train with the swelling (takes 24 hours to disappear) is making things worse...
Looking through the list of possible symptoms that you mention Neil, I don't really recognise too many - though after running in a half marathon and a 15 mile race recently I felt that on each occasion my enthusiasm for running had waned in the following week.
I plan to run again on Thursday (which will have been a 5 day break) and then check what's happening with the ankle. I wish I knew for sure whether or not continuing to train with the swelling (takes 24 hours to disappear) is making things worse...
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