Haven't been running lately

I haven't been running for more then a week. I have work from 6:00 to-5:00 and Lately I've been so f'in tired I don't run. How much fitness do you think someone will lose?

Probably quite a bit, but if you start back up again, you're likely to bounce back pretty quickly.

I think that after 3 weeks off, you return to pretraining fitness...I think...

Not that much, the bigger concern is how much you missed out on by not stepping forward in your training, not moving backward.

if you were training consistently 7 days a week this summer, then your base should be solid enough to handle a week off. i still can't understand why you've totally stopped running. maybe your job will force you to cut your mileage back, but I find it hard to believe that you have no time to run.....you found time to make this thread

*sg* wrote:I think that after 3 weeks off, you return to pretraining fitness...I think...

so if Bernard Lagat took 3 weeks off, I could beat him in a race?

RawBeginner wrote:

*sg* wrote:I think that after 3 weeks off, you return to pretraining fitness...I think...

so if Bernard Lagat took 3 weeks off, I could beat him in a race?

ok, maybe not, but I thought I read that in an article that talked about winter training and not taking too much time off. But maybe not.

1 week: (.994)(pre-setback vdot)
3 weeks: (.952)(pre-setback vdot)

Thank you, Daniels.

As you can see that's really hardly anything, like I said before the biggest drawback to not training for a week is the fitness you didn't gain.

FinishingKick wrote:1 week: (.994)(pre-setback vdot)
3 weeks: (.952)(pre-setback vdot)

Thank you, Daniels.

As you can see that's really hardly anything, like I said before the biggest drawback to not training for a week is the fitness you didn't gain.

Daniels does all his testing on world-class athletes with years of base...I think the effect of 3 weeks off would be a lot bigger on a kid who most likely has a shaky base, if he even has a base at all

I ran a mile two weeks into my base training and it nearly mirrored that loss of fitness.

RawBeginner wrote:if you were training consistently 7 days a week this summer, then your base should be solid enough to handle a week off. i still can't understand why you've totally stopped running. maybe your job will force you to cut your mileage back, but I find it hard to believe that you have no time to run.....you found time to make this thread

haha I knew someone would ask that. I used a computer at work. I'm going to quit soon. I just needed to give a 2 week notice before I quit.

do you get a shift break at work?
or can you squeeze something in ?

my sis and i did a few laps in an airplane once.
i dont know if it was more for running
or to pass a cute guy a few extra times. hah. :]

i agree with FK. you have to worry about not getting better.

and yea, you've spent time posting here, but you can't run?

2(n-7) to get back to where you were.

I was going to type something long and mean, but I decided to shorten and sweeten it. You won't lose that much fitness, but just go out and run. I know people who would kill to have your schedule but still make it out there, so just making running your priority no matter what time of day.