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I’m doing a sustained power plan, which has 3 rides a week. But with daily commutes (which I’m terrible at using for active recovery) and a long weekend ride, I’m struggling with fatigue. I’m sure it’s mostly work/life related as things are busy right now. Just bored of feeling done in.
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I'd rather feel tired from training than from the cold I think is creeping into my battered body. I was up early this morning for first gym session after crash and I think my RHR was like 80! I looked at phone hoping coachiepoos was going to call it off. No luck. I do feel better for it (mostly stretching with some super super easy lifts) but I really just want to go to bed and wake up with my bikes fixed.
If you're tired try to find ways to back off on the commute. Remember your turbo sessions. Every time someone passes think "I'm doing focused training tonight, don't chase, I'll be faster when it counts!" or build a singlespeed fat bike to try and slow you down (it didn't work) or ride a stupidly low geared dual suss singlespeed with wide bars (better because I can't go through any gaps to keep speed up). I used to count stuff to force me to concentrate on the counting rather than racing every fucker.
Also as I get older and wiser I recognise work and life stress has an impact on training motivation and I just don't push it when shit's going down.
hippy
Are you doing one of their plans? I normally start them and then realise that they want 4-5 days on a turbo. LOLocopter. The weather isn't that bad!