Let's Talk Post-Race Blues and Taking Time Off

Run, Selfie, Repeat

Kelly Roberts

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🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We’ve talked about it before and we’ll talk about it again. THE DREADED PAUSE. Post-race blues are a real thing. It can be hard to adjust to life without the structure a goal race brings.

In my early years of running, rest days were a nightmare. I felt guilty taking time off because I was terrified I’d gain weight. I wanted to go non-stop because I didn’t think I was ready to work through everything I was running so hard from.

The hardest part about dealing with the post-race blues is having to really work through what you're running from or towards. But it's in that unfocused, "lost", pause that growth happens.

Today, I want to talk about all the fears we have from losing fitness and gaining weight, to feeling like you need to fix that sadness you're experiencing.

Let's talk about why it's important to find balance during the post-race blues.

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0:00.0	Hi, hi, hi, hi everyone. Welcome to the Run Selfy Repeat Podcast where we talk about life with the sight of running.
0:12.0	My name is Kelly Roberts and today I want to talk about something that I I'm I'm going through it I'm sure a lot of you are also going through it but this time around is a little bit
0:24.9	different for me I want to talk about the post-race blues and I'll explain in a
0:30.2	little bit why mine is a little bit different but we've talked about the post-race blues
0:35.2	before and we'll talk about it again on here. If I mean if there's one thing you can count on
0:40.0	it is that sense of longing and like honestly it's sadness after your
0:44.9	race is over it's what happens in this period of time post race of course you're
0:50.1	feeling a little blue you spend weeks and weeks and weeks and
0:53.5	weeks working for a goal maybe maybe your goal was a half marathon maybe it was a
0:58.0	marathon or hell maybe it was an eight-week goal to become a runner and you finally finished your
1:04.4	last session or just finished your 5k which is so impressive and amazing and so
1:09.0	incredible but race day comes Day goes, and honestly it doesn't matter if you had the training journey that you dreamed of or maybe like, you know, Race Day was better than anything you could have ever possibly
1:23.7	had imagined or it doesn't matter if it was a terrible terrible day and you maybe
1:29.9	like the journey itself wasn't perfect it really doesn't matter if it was the best ever or
1:34.0	the worst ever what follows is like this very strange period of time where you
1:40.5	aren't quite sure what to do with yourself how to handle like that empty feeling when it's,
1:45.0	when like it's safe to start chasing another goal, it's hard to say and like,
1:51.0	look, I want to talk about this obsession with not losing your fitness in particular.
1:56.9	Some people call it post-race blues.
1:58.5	Others throw themselves back into running so quickly that they wouldn't know the post-race blues if it smacked
2:04.2	them in the face but they're real like very very real and there's something you
2:08.9	shouldn't try to fix the only way to handle post-race blues is to move through it not to ignore it not to like jump right back into it so that you don't have to deal with it
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