Man, it goes fast.

[shelbyann]

Fitness, that is. It's been a month since Boston and I've only run a handful of times...easy 3-5 milers and one track workout where we did 400 repeats, which was, um, hard.

At the beginning of the month, I started boot camp again (the same boot camp I did last summer/fall and got into good shape) and as part of our workout, we had to run around the building a few times between sets of other stuff. This was maybe a quarter mile, half mile at the most.

It kicked my ass. And by the last one, I was like shuffling, seriously. How did I run a marathon a month ago? How??

I know it does not help that I have gained weight (about 10-15 lbs, not since the marathon but a more cumulative thing from last winter), and I'm thinking I need to put a more serious effort into losing it. Bleh. Getting out of shape sucks.

[taratru]

Totally understand and also hate it. I think most of the reason I push through the blah times is because I know how fucking hard it is to start over.

You're pretty kick ass, though, so I'm sure you'll be back at it in no time.

[Brit]

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here and guessing that running outside in Atlanta during your boot camp felt about like running in a sauna. I blame it on the weather!

[shelbyann]

I hope you're right! At this point I would just settle for losing a little bit of my extra flab and not feeling like I'm going to die after doing five burpees.

[shelbyann]

May 20, 2013 20:54:08 GMT -5 Brit said:

I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here and guessing that running outside in Atlanta during your boot camp felt about like running in a sauna. I blame it on the weather!

It was upper-80s today and somewhat humid. Definitely uncomfortable but it's going to get a whole lot worse, LOL. But yeah, everyone was dragging a little on account of the weather. It's just crazy to me to be reduced to a holy-crap-my-legs-won't-go shuffle after such a shirt distance!

[Deleted]

Yeah the humidity totally changes my workouts. What was normally an easy run becomes the most difficult exercise I've ever done and there's only a few days worth of difference. I was feeling like that during a run on Sunday and had to remind myself that it was so humid outside.

Plus, when I do other stuff that my body isn't used to, I feel so out of shape too. Put me in some running sneakers and I can do that, you want me to do burpies and run up and down flights of stairs? I feel like I have never exercised in my life doing those.

[sadlebred]

Your fitness will come back quickly!

Get ready for a hot summer here. The humidity is already picking up.

[cinco]

I've been feeling out of shape since my marathon, and that was in December. Oops. I wish I could blame the weather.

[thom]

I'm worried about how much the heat will zap me when it comes to MN in full force! I know it won't be as bad as what you get in Atlanta all summer though.

Also, I bet you're not quite as far from
fitness as you think. The heat totally makes a difference, and often times even in the thick of training I have runs where I feel wiped after a few miles. I keep going because mentally I know I can, and it gets better. Where as when you think you're more out of shape it may be as much mental as physical? Hope you have a good experience with the class!

Edit: I don't mean to say it's not physical, just that you probably have t lost all your marathon fitness in a month.