I have been three times to my local running club's track sessions (intervals of 300,500 & 800m). I've really enjoyed these BUT have found that this running has completely trashed my legs so that I have struggled to walk, never mind run, for the next day or two and prob 4 days til completely recover. This means that on the weeks I have been, I have ended up doing a lot less running for the rest of the week, so overall mileage is down.
Do you guys think I am just too new to running to be doing this type of training (been running for about 3 months now)? Would I be better off increasing my "base" mileage first ie keeping it slow but trying to go further? Or will my legs get used to the speedier stuff after a few more sessions?
In a bit of a quandry cos I have enjoyed the sessions, I suppose as much for the social thing as anything but don't want to knacker myself so much that I can't do my normal running or risk injury.
Help?!?
Do you guys think I am just too new to running to be doing this type of training (been running for about 3 months now)? Would I be better off increasing my "base" mileage first ie keeping it slow but trying to go further? Or will my legs get used to the speedier stuff after a few more sessions?
In a bit of a quandry cos I have enjoyed the sessions, I suppose as much for the social thing as anything but don't want to knacker myself so much that I can't do my normal running or risk injury.
Help?!?