I am just starting to get into my heavier training weeks preparing for ironman Florida in November this year. I am starting to notice some mornings as I am waking up, my legs are fairly sore and it initially feels like it won’t be a good day for training. Then once I get moving and have breakfast and start moving around, I feel fine and my workouts (typically in the late afternoon) don’t seem to suffer.
Does anyone else experience this? Would this indicate that I am not giving my body adequate recovery or is this just the case of “getting old” syndrome?
I did my first ironman back in 2010 and don’t remember experiencing this but at the same time, I am putting in more work for this one to drastically improve my time.
Every morning I feel like this, and to be honest I’d be a little worried if my legs weren’t tired getting out of bed. I actually like that feeling. Even later in the day when I start a warmup on the bike or run…legs sometimes feel dead. After a good warmup though, I’m good to go.
I am just starting to get into my heavier training weeks preparing for ironman Florida in November this year. I am starting to notice some mornings as I am waking up, my legs are fairly sore and it initially feels like it won’t be a good day for training. Then once I get moving and have breakfast and start moving around, I feel fine and my workouts (typically in the late afternoon) don’t seem to suffer.
This is every morning for me. Some mornings I’m less sore but I’m always sore to some degree.
Like you mention, by the afternoon, I’m usually back to “normal”. I would hazard that this is quite normal amongst athletes who spend a fair amount of time training.
takes about 3 days of no running/riding for me for my legs to feel “springy” (or whatever) in the morning. they pretty much always dont wanna get going till i force them.
but feeling ‘sore’ vs feeling tired or heavy legged are different things to me. i feel tired legged or heavy legged most mornings… but only actually sore on mornings after really really hard workouts.
I’d be worried if I wasn’t a little sore every morning, means I probably didn’t work out very hard the previous day. Like everyone else it is gone in a couple hours of moving around and yes you are getting oldER.