TL:DR - moved temporarily to a hot, humid, hotel based environment with work. Training is sucking.
So I'm mid-season like most in the N Hemisphere and building to 70.3WC and a September IM.
Training has been going great at home in the UK, but I've been asked by my job to work in Tokyo for a while (1-2 months). I negotiated getting the bike out here and a hotel with a decent pool, the only real set back being a stress reaction in my foot diagnosed the week before I flew... so no running.
Where I'm coming unstuck is that I'm totally devoid of energy. Like, not just a little bit off, I'm flat. Normally when I'm tired it is hard to get out the door but then I can tough through a workout 9 times out of 10. Right now when I do start the workouts the whole time I'm fighting to carry on, which is not like me. Obviously there's a long list of factors, and I'm trying to mitigate the ones I can think of, but wondered if the collective wisdom had more experience with this than I do.
1) Humidity - there's not a lot I can do here, it's just more humid. Drink lots of Pocari Sweat and similar, try to keep hydrated. The heat isn't insane, but coupled to the humidity I can't manage long on the trainer before I "burn up". HR rising and falling power at levels normally easy for me.
2) Hotel 'lifestyle' - I can't cook for myself, and hotel food is a mixed bag. The Japanese food is very good, and whilst I want to embrace it, I can't eat it every meal. A lot of the options are very rich and given the totally different cuisine I'm lost with my normal "what is good for me" compass. The western food is typical restaurant food, and probably no good for the waistline ;)
3) Jet Lag - I've travelled before this far, but never tried to maintain a training regime while doing so - any experience how long it takes to normalise? I was dead after 1800 in the pool this morning and normally I'm the one jumping in half hour before squad to add some distance...
4) Anything else? Is there something I've totally missed? I know the city air quality isn't supposed to be great but it's practically nonstop rain at the minute so that must be damped down to a degree...
I've been out here about 10 days now. The thought of another 30+ with shitty training is not doing wonders for my motivation ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg
So I'm mid-season like most in the N Hemisphere and building to 70.3WC and a September IM.
Training has been going great at home in the UK, but I've been asked by my job to work in Tokyo for a while (1-2 months). I negotiated getting the bike out here and a hotel with a decent pool, the only real set back being a stress reaction in my foot diagnosed the week before I flew... so no running.
Where I'm coming unstuck is that I'm totally devoid of energy. Like, not just a little bit off, I'm flat. Normally when I'm tired it is hard to get out the door but then I can tough through a workout 9 times out of 10. Right now when I do start the workouts the whole time I'm fighting to carry on, which is not like me. Obviously there's a long list of factors, and I'm trying to mitigate the ones I can think of, but wondered if the collective wisdom had more experience with this than I do.
1) Humidity - there's not a lot I can do here, it's just more humid. Drink lots of Pocari Sweat and similar, try to keep hydrated. The heat isn't insane, but coupled to the humidity I can't manage long on the trainer before I "burn up". HR rising and falling power at levels normally easy for me.
2) Hotel 'lifestyle' - I can't cook for myself, and hotel food is a mixed bag. The Japanese food is very good, and whilst I want to embrace it, I can't eat it every meal. A lot of the options are very rich and given the totally different cuisine I'm lost with my normal "what is good for me" compass. The western food is typical restaurant food, and probably no good for the waistline ;)
3) Jet Lag - I've travelled before this far, but never tried to maintain a training regime while doing so - any experience how long it takes to normalise? I was dead after 1800 in the pool this morning and normally I'm the one jumping in half hour before squad to add some distance...
4) Anything else? Is there something I've totally missed? I know the city air quality isn't supposed to be great but it's practically nonstop rain at the minute so that must be damped down to a degree...
I've been out here about 10 days now. The thought of another 30+ with shitty training is not doing wonders for my motivation ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFJLMyUwrg