Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 2
As I mentioned in Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 1, one thing that tends to increase with depression is rumination, your brain starts going 90 miles an hour as you worry about your problems. Among other things I was worrying about (including the proverbial, what am I going to do with the rest of my life), one question was what exactly had happened to my skating and training and racing? That is, how had things gone from so good to so bad overnight?
Overtraining and Overreaching: Results Part 1
As readers with good memories will recall from Methods of Endurance Training: Results Part 4, I had travelled to Napa, California to race another half-marathon and despite cramping after a crash at the second turnaround, came close to my goal time and ‘won’ (inasmuch as there was little to no competition and even the announcer made a crack about me sandbagging when I got my medal; ha ha). After the race I had a brutally long and boring drive back to LA, hung out with some friends and then got on a plane the following morning.
