Hi all
Well, my 2018 season has already started very badly. On New Year's day I came down with a really nasty cold (first time I've been ill in nearly 2 years, so I suppose I've got to consider myself lucky in that regard) that took the best part of 3 weeks to properly recover from. I then was horribly busy with work, meaning I barely trained at the end of January. I then had the misfortune of having an operation last week which is taking so much longer to recover from than I had hoped/wanted. Realistically I'm going to struggle to be doing anything involving exercise until w/c 19th Feb.
All in all, this means i've gone the best part of 6-7 weeks without any form of meaningful training. This is the longest layoff period I have ever had. If I'm honest, it's really scaring me. I'm scared that I'm going to be back to struggling to run a single mile or hold 150 watts on the bike (for reference, at peak last year my FTP was 300 watts at 74kg).
So my question is this. How the f**k do I start over? I've never been in this position before. At most in the past I've taken a couple of weeks 'off' where I still did a couple of easy runs and easy rides. What I don't want to do is go straight into 10hours a week again, as I just don't think I can take that volume. Is this really a case of run/walk for a couple of weeks and a couple of hours on the turbo spinning the legs?
HELP!
Thanks all
Well, my 2018 season has already started very badly. On New Year's day I came down with a really nasty cold (first time I've been ill in nearly 2 years, so I suppose I've got to consider myself lucky in that regard) that took the best part of 3 weeks to properly recover from. I then was horribly busy with work, meaning I barely trained at the end of January. I then had the misfortune of having an operation last week which is taking so much longer to recover from than I had hoped/wanted. Realistically I'm going to struggle to be doing anything involving exercise until w/c 19th Feb.
All in all, this means i've gone the best part of 6-7 weeks without any form of meaningful training. This is the longest layoff period I have ever had. If I'm honest, it's really scaring me. I'm scared that I'm going to be back to struggling to run a single mile or hold 150 watts on the bike (for reference, at peak last year my FTP was 300 watts at 74kg).
So my question is this. How the f**k do I start over? I've never been in this position before. At most in the past I've taken a couple of weeks 'off' where I still did a couple of easy runs and easy rides. What I don't want to do is go straight into 10hours a week again, as I just don't think I can take that volume. Is this really a case of run/walk for a couple of weeks and a couple of hours on the turbo spinning the legs?
HELP!
Thanks all