I (27M) have been using runna for a year and was casually running before (a few times a week or something like 5-8km pretty consistently for 5 out of the last seven years).
It's honestly a bit depressing to feel like I've not been improving at all despite following programs (run faster plans) for all the year except the 3 winter months where I just ran close to daily at easy paces.
I honestly don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is this just my natural ceiling? Do I have an underlying health problem?
It's very frustrating because I feel like I've been putting in the work but feel absolutely no progress.
It's been bugging me for a long time and I've been meaning to create a post here for quite some time.
Regardless, I keep at it.
(I've had the watch roughly at the time I finished my first 3 month running program hence the weird improvement at the start as the watch adapts and I was recovering from a very physically and mentally taxing weeklong event).
Also, I never understood runners high, after runs, I mostly feel slightly dissociated in a manner I wouldn't describe as necessarily pleasant. Am I the only one?
Edit: I'added screenshots of my monthly running volume over those periods in the comments. Reddit doesn't let me add images now.
Edit 2: So I've decided to add easy runs to slowly increase my volume because I may have hit a total work plateau.