I have been training for a middle distance race, things have been going well but this week I started feeling weak and light headed. I had a deep black stool, was getting really bad head rushes when standing up and was out of breath climbing the stairs.
This isn't my first experience of this, in fact I've had it about 5-6 times now. I know I had an upper GI bleed, thus the black stool. I went to my doctor and they tested my blood (results on Monday), but it's the same old story, I'll need to take Iron tablets to get my HGB back up, I have decided to take an OTC proton pump inhibitor just as a precaution until I get my results.
Anyway, I can still train, but my paces are way down. As a reference I ran 7km before work yesterday, my pace was 17 seconds/km slower than last time I ran the route last week, and my heart rate was 10bpm higher this time.
How would you go about training? Should I just rest, or just do some easy training, or can I train properly but just slower than normal?
I went for a 2h30 ride this morning, hills aren't much fun, but otherwise I feel ok, though obviously my speed is lower than normal.
This isn't my first experience of this, in fact I've had it about 5-6 times now. I know I had an upper GI bleed, thus the black stool. I went to my doctor and they tested my blood (results on Monday), but it's the same old story, I'll need to take Iron tablets to get my HGB back up, I have decided to take an OTC proton pump inhibitor just as a precaution until I get my results.
Anyway, I can still train, but my paces are way down. As a reference I ran 7km before work yesterday, my pace was 17 seconds/km slower than last time I ran the route last week, and my heart rate was 10bpm higher this time.
How would you go about training? Should I just rest, or just do some easy training, or can I train properly but just slower than normal?
I went for a 2h30 ride this morning, hills aren't much fun, but otherwise I feel ok, though obviously my speed is lower than normal.