We're a group of 3 fairly fit 40 something girls, mostly swimmers rather than runners, one started running couple of years ago, the other two of us last year - I wanted to do a sprint tri, and we'd entered a couple of 10k adventure races. In autumn signed up to do a half and couple of 10ks this summer and trained well through the winter. In last 2 months have done the half, 2 x 10ks, 2 x mile open water swim races and 2 x 3k open water races, and doing lots of swimming as training to do Alcatraz next month. Trying to keep the running going as got another 10k in August and a half in October and even talked about training up to do a full next Autumn, but last couple of weeks, our training runs have been rubbish, none of seem to have our running heads on at all, and it feels as if regressed by 3 or 4 months! Can't believe that ran the half last month. Don't think I could now ! Have we just done too much, will our enthusiasm come back? Is it cos we've achieved our immediate running goals ? Just when beginning to feel like a runner, weeks like lost it all
