first, if youre really feeling like crap, try to increase the sleep (very important) takes multivitamins, eat well, drink a lot of water and rest your bones.
second, i dont think you should have done so much to yourself that you needed three days rest. Be more attentive to your body, stress levels and effort in training and then you wont beat yourself into the ground so much. I’ve always been told that there is very little to be gained from a massive workout if you then take 4 days off after it.
I wish I could ride with girls… the best thing about riding with girls is that they smell good! Common topic among our group is all long since the last time their jersey was washed…
second, i dont think you should have done so much to yourself that you needed three days rest. Be more attentive to your body
Agreed… Sometimes you do not know your going over the edge till it happens. It is easy for me to keep on trying to push “just a little” farther until its to late…live and learn.
agreed man, i have had a big problem with pushing too hard in the past as well. I think its because i lack patience and mentally just want to keep riding and riding hard, but then it catches up. one of my training goals has been to monitor this much more closely and just ride like everyday (or so) even if that means averaging 15 mph and just doing some active recovery. It has been hard at times, when im out going to just go 15mph when some girl on a mountain bike hammers past me. I think its my svelte racing bike that tells me “youre getting beat by a girl on a mtn bike! chase her down.” Its hard to ignore that voice at times.
Thank you for the ongoing props. I try to be low key and anonymous here , but you keep blowing my cover!!
What weekly training hours don’t revreal is the dynamic range in the training that people are doing - both day to day and week to week. This is critical to getting the most out of training and it’s this periodization that is perhaps the least understood but biggest bang-for-the- traing-buck out there.
When I was still in highschool I went to a training session that was led by a coach from Russia( Then Soviet Union) he was asked why North American runners could not compete well at the international level. He said that after witnessing the training that was going on on his visit he said, " The hard days were not hard enough and the easy days were not easy enough!"
That comment was my guiding light for 20 years of training - make the hard days really hard and the easy days really easy!
