About a month ago I decided to try out the "Daily Suggestions" feature. I had just recovered from 3 days of Covid so wasn't surprised to be prompted for Recovery runs for a few days (in fact I quite enjoyed running so slowly :-)) Finally after 2 weeks of recovery runs I was prompted to do a run of 1:42:00 @ 5min/km. A bit of a jump I thought, but I did it anyway as I wanted to see what happened next.
What did happen next was since then to today, only recovery runs (another 2 weeks or so). If I look at the training menu I can see that tomorrow is another recovery and the day after tomorrow will be a long run (1:12:00). Except it wont because (based on experience), after a recovery run tomorrow, Saturday will turn into a recovery run.
Clearly something is going wrong here.
vo2 max is 51 - down from 52 last month
training status: unproductive: vo2 decreasing, HRV balanced, Acute load optimal
training readiness low (44) 18 hours recovery and poor sleep
Do I understand correctly my recovery runs and poor sleep (last night I scored 78 which is quite good for me) mean that I am stuck in a recovery loop? Is there other factors or metrics I should be looking at to allow me go go running again? BTW covid was the end of my ironman training - I was doing up to 15 hours run/bike/swimming per week so current level of only running feels ridiculously low....
thanks for input
j
