I am very measured in my diet because I gain weight very easily. I eat the same things, in the same amounts, at about the same time, every day. I’m real fun that way. Yesterday, everything was fine until about 5:00 PM, then I wanted to eat everything I could see. I was supposed to get up at 5:00 AM for a 7:30 ride. I hit the sooze several times and finally just shut off the alarm (it was a rgoup ride, so no one was inconvenienced). I SLEPT FOR 13 HOURS STRAIGHT.
So I ate and slept my brains out, and my training schedule is half what it was when training for the IM.
Does this happen to any of you? I think I was emotionally exhausted.
yeah it’s happened to me a few times. Given the recent stress you’ve been through, I think your body was saying f you, I’m tired and your sleeping. Stress+rest=improved performance. too much stress or too little rest=your screwed.
j/k. this happens to me. sometimes sleep and recovery is more important for fitness than training. you’ll probably notice an improvement in your fitness level once you get back at it, provided this is only a few days’ aberration. well, that’s what my body does anyway.
Pretty common for me. I always say I wiil do a killer workout on monday only to do nothing but sleep in. After working all wekend it is what my body wants. Listen to your body.
Yup, been there. Never know when the body says its NOT following the training plan. Ignore that message to your own peril.
Sat we did a RBR brick of 5/50/5. Sunday was to be a short swim followed by a long bike today. Sunday I felt so bad I thought I had the flu. Spent most of the day in the easy chair wondering why I was torturing myself, bagged the swim. A good nights sleep delivered a spirited 2 hr ride, and a 30 min recovery swim. I’ll take that over 5 hrs of probable poor quality riding, questionable benifit, and even more recovery. As it is, run intervals look good for tomorrow.
My problem is that I never overtly display signs of sickness or overtraining but nevertheless have elevated hr, a heavy head, heavy legs and general tiredness. Had these symptoms post disney 1/2 so took most of last week off training. Struggled through a couple of training sessions this weekend so I employed my other feel better strategy. Have just returned from my local restaurant’s ‘all you can eat rib night’, complete with a few coors lights and a large chocolate brownie sundae and I can tell my body’s happier already!
Happened to me all last week… I am very very stressed at work, and absolutly exhausted. i have substitue 3 workouts for naps… Not like me. and had 2 nights of 11 sleep. i am thinking it’s either stress or remnants from IMAZ… or pms.
Wimothy said he slept for 31 hours straight the other day, that has to be a record. I could never sleep for more than 8 hours without someone interupting me.
I wish I could sleep like that. I can’t ever muster more than 9, even a day or two after a 100-mile ride. Of course now it’s light until 10 and light again at 5. Good for training but not for sleeping.
