Sounds like you're using the Lionel Sanders Training Plan going into Augusta 70.3. Multiple 400-500 mile weeks on the bike leading into the race won't leave you cooked at all...despite how it feels. Wait until it just hits you from nowhere and you're fucked. I know from experience.
I see way too many people overtraining and burying themselves leading into a race. The plan should be to come in sharp and fresh.
plant_based wrote:
mwanner13 wrote:
I have IM 70.3 North Carolina on October 19th. At this point, I think a lot of us are fried from a long year of training and racing.
I have Augusta 70.3 coming up on 9/29, but am carefully tiptoeing toward fatigue this week and next week. I actually plan to go relatively hard until 9/22. My Strava is saying to tone it down this week already (or be careful and have adequate rest/recovery), but my Garmin said that I was 'productive' when I finished my Friday night session, leaving me at 313.9mi at 15h6m of cycling so far.
I didn't even know if I wanted to ride last night as I was at 280mi and didn't know if I should rest, but my girlfriend wanted to go ride and so I went out and decided to just to try to blow up my quads. I already had a 50mi ride earlier so didn't want to be sluggish, but rather try to make my quads really scream. Surprisingly enough, I started riding very snappy and fast and my quads held up for a good session.
Hitting 400mi this week would be good. Maybe more next week if possible. But, at the same time I want to be productive and don't want to tear up my muscles completely so will have to just see if I can avoid fatigue, but the weather is so nice next week - it would be a great 500mi week.
Cycling doesn't tire me out a ton though - the running gets me super fatigued. I did 10mi/day for 7 days in December and I was beat. On concrete. I hardly run train that much as I feel I'm just being so much more productive on the bike. I've only had 117mi of outdoor running this year, which includes a 70.3 and 140.6. I have a few miles on the treadmill as well. I'm nervous about hitting knee issues as well and have been injury free for a while now.
I've had the fatigue where you can't move and you feel like you might tear something and its terrible. I avoid that like the plague. I feel hydration is a big part of this equation and just chug La Croix non stop off of the bike. Dehydration is the first step to feeling sluggish and locking up.