The rest of this week is gonna be easy, easy. Despite having yesterday off, and despite doing a bare minimum today, I'm still exhausted. I truly hope you're right Elly, and that it's simply a case of extreme over-training, because that can get better. I actually have lots of experience with over training of a less chronic nature, which can be fixed with a few weeks of reduced activity. This doesn't feel like that. I've also read lots of anecdotal stuff about people getting themselves in a much worse condition, and I do acknowledge it as a possibility in my case.
After all this time I'm pretty well convinced that what happened last August in Quebec, and what has been going on since are two different things. I think on Ironman day I was just sick. That being said, I suspect that the one was a trigger for the other. As soon as my ironman was over, instead of doing the wise thing and taking it easy for 2 or 3 months I set out with a vengeance to prove that the IM failure was just a fluke. That could well be the cause of my current situation.
As always, physical stress, and mental stress combine nicely to make a poor recipe, and I admit to lots of the mental kind as well. And even as I write that, I realize how fucked up it is. I have always claimed that my exercise was my relief valve for the pressures of life, and yet suddenly I find myself stating the opposite! Wow!
Of course that still leaves me with the reality that my race is just 11 weeks away, and I'm not ready! How do I do less, and still get ready? That's gonna be a pretty fine line. And while I appreciate your advice Elly, the reality is that right now I could actually finish the swim and the bike portions, but I'm not so sure about the run. I think instead of cutting out running altogether I just need to do more walking yet. If I can get myself through the race, then I can work on a full recovery.....what I should have done last September!!
And as John and Gail pointed out, maybe the lack of a plan is a good thing. I could probably learn that skill from my kids!!
Anyway. I went to the pool for a bit, and then went and ran the trails. I should have walked!
swim 1000 metres, run 6 km trails
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."---William Arthur Ward
Love
Peter
After all this time I'm pretty well convinced that what happened last August in Quebec, and what has been going on since are two different things. I think on Ironman day I was just sick. That being said, I suspect that the one was a trigger for the other. As soon as my ironman was over, instead of doing the wise thing and taking it easy for 2 or 3 months I set out with a vengeance to prove that the IM failure was just a fluke. That could well be the cause of my current situation.
As always, physical stress, and mental stress combine nicely to make a poor recipe, and I admit to lots of the mental kind as well. And even as I write that, I realize how fucked up it is. I have always claimed that my exercise was my relief valve for the pressures of life, and yet suddenly I find myself stating the opposite! Wow!
Of course that still leaves me with the reality that my race is just 11 weeks away, and I'm not ready! How do I do less, and still get ready? That's gonna be a pretty fine line. And while I appreciate your advice Elly, the reality is that right now I could actually finish the swim and the bike portions, but I'm not so sure about the run. I think instead of cutting out running altogether I just need to do more walking yet. If I can get myself through the race, then I can work on a full recovery.....what I should have done last September!!
And as John and Gail pointed out, maybe the lack of a plan is a good thing. I could probably learn that skill from my kids!!
Anyway. I went to the pool for a bit, and then went and ran the trails. I should have walked!
swim 1000 metres, run 6 km trails
"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."---William Arthur Ward
Love
Peter
I love you and love you and love you!
ReplyDeleteTaking a break, taking it easy, backing off a bit.....sounds like a plan to me!
ReplyDeleteLove, gail