JeepFleeb's mentor group - FULL (Page 9)

I don'wanna check in...cranky missing workouts this weekend 'cause of stupid allergic reaction. :p

Hey Gang.

Last week was very successful as I hit all my workouts and am feeling pretty good. This week it looks like everything should line up so that I'll be on target. I MIGHT have to push my Saturday ride to Sunday, but either way it will get done.

Congarts Aaron on your qualification, that's great. Congrats to everyone else who raced last weekend, I'll be joining your ranks in a few weeks.

Also, congrats to Michelle on the new clothes purchase. A size you haven't worn in your adult life?? Pretty awesome.

Keep up the good work.

Aaron, quick question: The last few days I've had negative .4 energy. I'm tired all day and have no juice to work out. I'm racing a week from Sunday so technically I'm in a taper. What is better, slogging through these short workouts or should I skip one or some of them to try and get my body back to a rested state? On a side note, I have no idea why I'm like this right now, but I'm sitting at work with my eyes at half-mast. Back in my younger day people would have sworn I went on a bender last night, but no such thing happened. Very strange.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

*I hit enter on accident so had to edit

JeepFleeb - 2009-05-07 9:49 AM

elheffe99 - 2009-05-07 10:46 AM
Aaron, quick question: The last few days I've had negative .4 energy. I'm tired all day and have no juice to work out. I'm racing a week from Sunday so technically I'm in a taper. What is better, slogging through these short workouts or should I skip one or some of them to try and get my body back to a rested state? On a side note, I have no idea why I'm like this right now, but I'm sitting at work with my eyes at half-mast. Back in my younger day people would have sworn I went on a bender last night, but no such thing happened. Very strange.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Always err on the side of rest.  Once you get within two weeks of an A race, no training is going to deliver any fitness gains that will make a difference on race day.  You're done.  Whatever fitness you have right now is all you have to work with for this race.

Taper is a time to let your body rest/recover and what training is there is to maintain your fitness level.  You can do too much so you're under recovered and have less than peak fitness but you can also do too little which will result in less than peak fitness.

If you're tired, cut some workouts.  If you're a great runner but a horrible cyclist I'd ditch your scheduled runs but hold on to the rides if you can.

As for what's causing it: hard to say without knowing a lot more info.  It could be stress, sleep, nutrition (total calories, macronutrient makeup, timing), hydration, etc.  The only thing I can say for sure is that you're better off training less and resting more.  That's not really addressing the cause but it's definitely part of the solution.

Hope you feel 100% again soon!

Thanks for the thoughts. I'd heard about the fitness level you have two weeks out is pretty much what you have for race day. This is not an 'A' race either but just something to get me back in the game.

My guess is that there are a lot of different factors at play. I've always been a horrible water drinker and have been better in the past few months but have been slipping a bit lately. That plus the hot weather might mean more water. I've also started logging my nutrition for the first time in a LONG time. I've been eating around 2100-2500, with an exception now and again. Perhaps that's not enough? And as we all know there are always outside stresses that come in to play.

I'll probably try and hit a few more workouts but not kill myself in order to do so.

Thanks again.