Struggle Town

Damn, our household is hurting right now. Turns out a sleep over Birthday party followed by a half day hockey tournament is pretty much a recipe for exhaustion. We are all fried.

I actually thought I got through my big weekend of training pretty cleanly and was feeling tired but okay, that was until this morning that is. After 7 and a half hours of good sleep (a lot for me) I still work up feeling like I had been dragged backwards through a briar. Given the amount of sleep that the rest of the family had I suspect they all felt similarly.  Hopefully we are on track for recovery, but today has been a struggle.

Despite waking up feeling rather average I did manage to get out the door for my training session. The session ended up going okay, it took a while to get into it, but the bulk of the session was good quality. I am suffering a little bit now, but this morning wasn't too bad.

With this afternoon the jury is still out. I always have good intentions about training on Monday nights, but I often find that after a big weekend I need Monday to be more of a recovery day. Realistically there is simply too much fatigue to push on too hard. What I really feel like for this afternoon is a nice recovery session, 40 or 50 minutes of very easy effort.

Not to be dismissed the old recovery session. I know when I was racing in triathlon recovery sessions used to be a weekly staple. Either easy runs or easy rides, we always had at least one session a week. They got you out doing exercise, captured a few more miles, but you didn't incur any additional fatigue from it, if anything you would finish the session feeling better than if you had done nothing at all. They were a bit of an eye opener for me, who at the time didn't understand that it was okay to go out and train and not work hard, that training easy was not just okay, but was sometimes to be encouraged. Recovery sessions taught me a very important lesson in that respect.

Yep, I think that is pretty much what I feel like right now.