Ran a 5k, now can barely run a mile? wth?!

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  • SASSYnCHICago
    SASSYnCHICago Posts: 98 Member
    you will be able to do it - just dedicate 3 days a week to running, and a 5K distances shouldn't be a problem. we all have our good running days, and the ones that feel like we just can run at all. practice and consistency is the key. don't start out sprinting, ease into it and your feel much better.
    your lucky you are still young and can do anything the day after drinking! after 30 all that goes away. best of luck
  • csuhar
    csuhar Posts: 779 Member
    Obviously the key is getting drunk before you run.....I'm impressed, I would never have made it out of bed.

    I do find that my legs don't feel as tired when I've got "something extra" in my gatorade. Well, either that or, by the time they start aching, I stop caring.

    But I do think there may be a couple factors coming into play. The first is the mindset. I've always felt differently when I run with people versus running alone. Usually, it's a combination of wanting to catch up with the runner in front of me and avoid being passed by the one behind me. The second is the dynamics. My experience running a 5K is different from running on my own or with only a few people, mostly because of the crowds. I find the higher congestion in a 5K tends to keep my speed down. Add in the "herd" mindset, and it's easier to go the distance.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Come to think of it, some of my best races were ones where I had some alcohol the night before.
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    In January, I ran my first 5k. I hadn't been planning for it at all; I had been running occasionally, but the farthest I'd ever run was about 2 miles. The run was on a Disney cruise and my uncle told me about it the day before. I still partied it up on the cruise and got plastered that night, then got up on 2 hours of sleep, still drunk AND hungover, and ran the 5k in 27:24. Pretty cool, right?

    WellI don't know if it was just the race atmosphere or what, but I haven't been able to run that far since! When I got back I went for a run and decided to aim for 2 miles. I thought it would be easy since I had already run 3.1! But nope, after the first mile I HAD to stop, walk for a couple minutes, and then run the second mile. I haven't been running that often since then but every time I do it's the same. Last night I set a goal of 1.5 miles. I did it, and it didn't kill me, but I definitely couldn't have kept going for double that distance!

    I'm signed up for another 5k next month and I'm starting to get nervous. I have a plan - I'm aiming to get up to 2 miles this week, then 2.5 next week, and so on until the week before the race I should be up to running 3.5 miles nonstop. Then the 5k will feel easy, hopefully! But I just don't understand why I could do it before, but not now! Does anyone else find running is much easier during an actual race? I'm so confused haha.

    THATS IS AWESOME!!!! I run a 8k The CHicago SHamrock shuffle every year.......its tradition to to run it HUNGOVER!!!!:bigsmile: I avergae doint thiese 5 miles in 54 minutes....
  • BEERRUNNER
    BEERRUNNER Posts: 3,046 Member
    ^^^^ in theory im carbloading the night before right!?!??!!:devil:
  • ExplorinLauren
    ExplorinLauren Posts: 991 Member
    Obviously the key is getting drunk before you run.....I'm impressed, I would never have made it out of bed.

    :laugh:

    I 2nd this
  • LaurenAOK
    LaurenAOK Posts: 2,475 Member
    Thanks for the tips, everyone! I'll try to slow down my pace when training. I get impatient so running 10 or 11 minute miles sounds just horrid, but I'll give it a shot! Speaking of shots... maybe I will throw in 1 or 2 of those before my next 5k, for tradition's sake :devil:
  • NutellaAddict
    NutellaAddict Posts: 1,258 Member
    Maybe you were so drunk you thought you were running the 5k but you were actually dreaming...:smile:
  • courtneymal17
    courtneymal17 Posts: 672 Member
    Dude, I'm impressed haha. I'm not a 'good' runner in any sense, but this weekend I had a 5k on sunday and basically because of another event that happened saturday I got TRASHED sat night before the race....I pretty much ran about .25k lol. IDK how you did the whole thing haha.

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