u/Federal_Elephant_943

As someone who has overtrained in the past I still struggle with recovery. Or the understanding of when to train. I hate posting these questions because I'm not great at articulating what I'm thinking but here goes. When you look graph in a pill athlete about training recovery and overtraining it shows the periods of super compensation and fatigue. I guess what I don't understand is if I do a workout on Monday how do I know when I'm ready to train again. If the premise is we should always have a small amount of fatigue forcing ever more slightly amounts of stress on the body so that it adapts how do you know what's appropriate timing. I feel like with my body I can train on a Monday and do recovery run Tuesday Wednesday still feel like a pile of garbage and be worried about overtraining but then Thursday I'm feeling 100% recovered and no fatigue. I'm then left worrying now that I'm not getting any training effect because I'm letting too much time go between efforts. Hopefully this question makes sense???? In the past I've always just grinded myself into a pile of garbage with tons of high intensity so I was always super tired now I'm worried I'm actually not training enough.

So we are 10 weeks from Eastern states. As I'm looking out towards my peak weeks which are roughly six and seven weeks away the weekends get extremely long. For instance I think it was week 17 says 80% of your total volume should come between your two long runs on the weekend and the total weekly plan calls for up to I think 90% of the races distance and vert. That makes for extremely long weekends which I'm totally on board with completely fine with.... Just want to make sure I'm not misinterpreting something as sometimes these long weekends leave me feeling pretty smashed for a couple days.

I know there is a thread just a couple posts down talking about carbs and fat oxidation but I don't want to hijack that thread with this question. In the book endure they actually talk briefly about Scott I think when he was training Steve..... Don't hold me to that I have to go back and reread that chapter but nevertheless they discuss long fasted workouts I believe upwards of 4 hours.... My previous understanding albeit limited was that the recommendation was once training exceeded roughly 10 hours a week the returns were limited on fasted exercise.... So I guess my question is am I mistaken or is this the typical don't try and train like the pros do kind of moment???