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I need training advice!
struggling atm with every aspect, I had an "ok" sprint a few months ago, but now I feel like all the gas is gone and I'm pulling about 80% of what I'm capable of.
everything just feels crap, my legs are not painful, just feel heavy and slow. and in endurance events my lungs just let go early and I'm exhausted way before any lactate hits the muscles. I'm used to struggling with endurance, but not with sprinting too. I did a tiny amount of training today and was exhausted, I fell asleep as soon as I got home. Unfortunately work involves riding 150-200 miles a week at 15mph at the moment, which is the wrong kind of thing for track racing, and I'm feeling tired before i even put my race shoes on*
I felt like this a few weeks ago and took a week's rest, then felt a little better, but now I'm on the back foot again. My body is telling me to rest, but I'm worried It'll be even harder to get back to where I want to be. I wanted to be building on what I'd done in the winter, but this all feels very much like the one step forwards, two steps back thing..
I guess I'm best getting some proper coaching, but I'm just letting off steam here anyway. If anything this forum is a good way to keep a diary, you can go back over stuff and see when you were performing and how well.
*and I still cannot get a comfortable cleat position for my right foot. it's bloody painful sometimes!