I only have the original Vivoactive and there is not option for beeping, just vibration. I thought I would hate it but got used to it very quickly. It is also helpful in a sea of beeping watches to know when my intervals stop/start without having to look to see if it was my watch. Just have to make sure you have it snug on your wrist.
) and contribute to feeling drained and uninterested. In that case the right thing to do is to take into account the stress that life is throwing at you and cut back some of the training until you can bring your body's response back to where it should be.
Let me be the voice of reason, instead of my usual enabling self. If you're not feeling your best, buying won't help. Wait a day and get them later.
You're running the marathon. And let's start with 5 cups... not 5,000
You know I am not gonna let you quit me now! You're my future Marathon buddy!!
2. If there's specific data you need during the recovery interval, you can go into that specific workout and make it a target. For my recovery intervals on the bike, I have a power alert and it will show me that and buzz if I'm in zone/out of zone. That said, my recovery periods are usually between :30-2:00, so I'm not sure I even need data at that point as long as I'm staying in the power I want to be in. I can see how it would be annoying that would be if you're doing a longer run. For example - here's my Fartlek workout for today ... HR Zone will be the data that shows in the Recovery interval (along with the countdown timer):
But you can edit it to provide a different category of data (say, pace) - just click Edit Workout and here are your options:
But other than that - like seeing distance or laps or whatever, you'll just have to wait until the recovery period is over.
Hang in there. I've gone through phases like that where it feels kind of pointless and I'm not sure why, and I think it's more likely to happen when I'm overstressed and tired and just want nothing to do with anything, running included.
It might be worth considering what's going on in your life as a whole and where you're at stress-wise. I was reading a book last night about athletic training and adaptation that points out that, although life events don't give us the physical stress adaptations, they can increase some of the stress hormones and put our hormone balance out of whack (that's the technical term, you know
Of course, that can be hard too, but worth a thought.
Let me be the voice of reason, instead of my usual enabling self. If you're not feeling your best, buying won't help. Wait a day and get them later.
You're running the marathon. And let's start with 5 cups... not 5,000
Thank you.
Build-up, would be my guess. We can function for a while on reserves but once those get shot everything goes downhill. Also you've just run a few races, which can make running feel like more of a chore/anxiety thing sometimes, especially with some of the uncertainty over the will you/won't you run them. (I both love races and hate them for this reason.)
It's okay to take a break or slow down if you need to. Take off all the devices and just go for a run for the hell of it, no matter what the schedule says. Find something that makes it feel joyful again - and if there's nothing there right now, that's okay too. But don't beat yourself up over it. Sometimes life just sucks and tomorrow is a new day.
Sending hugs and a hope that tomorrow will be much better.
