SWBKRUN fast, furious, and closed (Page 108)

That's usually the indicator I use, if everythings good then all of a sudden your foot is sore and it's not an injury probably time to replace the shoes, though 200-250 miles is a bit early from my experience,.

Found another reason not to ride with an ipod today.  Ended up doing  a Gran Fondo type ride today, basically it's a century type ride but it's timed.  Anyways cruising along and I see a guy right in front of me on a straight section go a$$ over tea kettle and smack the ground and his bike went flying.

Another guy and I stopped to help him out, I moved his bike out of the road and when I picked it up noticed his ear-buds were tangled in the front wheel.  Amazingly no road rash I could see, but he was a bit freaked out I think, the other guy and I hung out with him a bit until we thought he had himself together.

I did something similar as a kid but with a towel; my parents were away for the day and I had been invited to a friends house for a swim in their pool. I set off down the road with my towel rolled up on the handlebars and just as I picked up speed - BAM!!! - I smashed head first into the road...!

My towel had slipped down and got stuck in the spokes/fork. I took a decent layer off skin off my shoulders and forehead but just got back on and cycled about 5 miles to my friends house. I remember the looks I got as I took my T-shirt off to jump in their pool, I still had gravel coming out about a week later.

I'm still VERY wary of carrying anything on my bike that might get caught up.

Funny how in those days parents left the kids alone all day, kids went cycling across the country on their own and no-one had heard of cycling helmets!!!

Per Suzie's request, I am back home from my race.  Since this was just a training race, I am happy that I hit my most of my goals and "stayed in my box " by racing my own race but the 3 hour car ride home after didn't help the legs.  Swim was shortened due to Fog, it just would not lift after waiting over an hour!  

Have a bunch of family stuff to get caught up on now .....  RR & details tomorrow.  (Just call me George!)  

Hey, if you are going to be like me you need to wait until Wednesday or Thursday to do your RR!!!

Happy Monday!

Anyone have anything exciting going on this week?

Anyone ever Over Train and experiance symptoms. Last week I think I had my highest volume in around 650 mins recorded on here and about 90 mins of strength training not recorded (90 mins a week in strength I hardly record)

Anyways on Saturdays ride I did a few things wrong. I didn't eat enough for breakfast, I didn't drink enough water before and during. We had lunch with friends that came 70km from the other direction. I ate a lot and was hungry, had one glass of water and then went to ride home and about 30 mins into the ride I fell apart completely, had no strength in my legs and could hardly keep up to the other two I was with. I struggled for another 60 mins just to make it home. I was misserable, tired and even had a bit of a melt down in the shower after. As I had really wanted to do a BRICK on Saturday to feel better prepared for my first sprint this  coming Sunday.

Needless to say I went home and drank a lot of water, ate more food and rested the afternoon and evening away. I ended up taking yesterday off as well. My legs were really sore yesterday. Today they are sore again, achy feel like I have no strength in them. I am tapering this week anyways but really wanted to do a BRICK still. Even if it was a shorter one. Not only has my volume increased as of late but so has the intensity.

The only other thing I did out of the Ordinary was a really deep massage on Friday after work I went to see my MT and spent 90 mins with her working on me. Oh and Fridays are my off days so I did nothing on Friday as well.

Are these signs of over training? Did the massage loosen up some muscles and cause me to loose power and hurt now.

I did have a great day yesterday as the run clinics I helped with did their first race yesterday. I opted to not run and take pictures instead. Glad I did. It was an amazing day to watch all our 5k and 10k people at their first race. We brough 22 people to the race from our town down to the city hosting the race. Lots of smiles all day long.

But now I am stressed from feeling sore still.

Not so much race-wise, but it's the last week of school and my bouncing baby boy graduates from elementary school on Thursday. (GULP!!) All of that is exciting enough for me!!!

Chris that sounds like a classic BONK. It probably was mostly related to not enough nutrition/hydration, and very little to do with over training. Overtraining for me shows up as a deep muscle soreness and repeated daily decreases in speed/endurance.

If this is your taper week then use it as such. Assuming you are racing this weekend that missed brick WO is not going to cause you to under-perform come race day. Right now the taper is MORE important than the missed miles. Relax, this is supposed to be fun.

BTW: Good job on building your base.

Did you drink a sufficient amount of fluid after that 90 minute massage?  If it was a deep tissue there can be a lot of crap that needs to be flushed through the system.  Soreness a few days after a massage can be typical if you're not used to them and she worked you hard.

I don't think it's overtraining either, but I question the bonk.  You said you ate "alot" beforehand, but were light on hydration. Was the meal high fat?  maybe it hadn't completely digested.   I wouldn't think that would cause the systems you're describing though so not totally sure.

Summer vacation starts for the kids today. Hoping (praying actually) that the pool repairs are done this week. Amazing how a task that was promised to be done in one day takes more than a week.

OBX on friday for a week!!!!!

I am not sure that I bonked. I have bonked before and I was good energy wise yesterday.. But deep muscle soreness and what feels like lack of strength. I feel the same way now today. My legs still really hurt.

Now that I look back I drank 500ml on the way home after the massage. But I have not been for one in over a month. And not that deep in a long time.

I believe a combination of things lead to maybe a bit of a bonk, maybe a bit of overtraining with intervals on the bike... Regardless as everyone said.. not much I can do physically to improve this week. Going to take it easy and enjoy celibrating 9 years of being married on Wed and treat my wife for putting up with me through all of this training.

Then on Fathers day I am going out to do my first sprint in memory of my Dad who has been gone for 7 years.

Thanks everyone for the tips the help getting here. The help building my core, getting through my injury and many other things. You are all an inspiration no matter what level we all are. I am going to ROCK THE HELL out of this SPRINT on sunday.

I am so jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I come and go... most of the time I am just entertained by reading everything.

As for racing.... NADA, ZILCH, ZERO, NOTHING.... Haven't signed up for anything at all.  I still go out and "train" with people that are much more motivated than me, but I am usually bringing up the rear.

RP and I are going to do a 38 mile trail run (unsanctioned) in Sept with around 16000 feet of elevation gain/loss!  Apparently there is some big race in the NW that some SWBKRUN MG'S are going to partake in next April and I need to be ready for that!!!!

You are the one putting in the miles.... GREAT JOB

my secret weapon for the big race.  if you try to pass us she'll knock you upside the head with that watch!

What is OBX?  Feeling like I should be jealous too but don't know why.

It's all about the "bling!"

Thank you for not sharing the other picture.  I am sure that made me look like a great parent!