It’s been a funny old week. I feel like I have barely done any training but am absolutely shattered, more so than I can ever remember in any training cycle. This is partly down to a very busy week at home and at work resulting in some long days. Unwanted time on my feet and some sleep deprivation has really made recovery from training hard hence the dropping of sessions and listening to my body.
After the onslaught of the 500’s on Tuesday I took a full rest day on Wednesday then just a steady 8km yesterday. I have never experienced so much tiredness and fatigue as I did mid week and today I had to go red again so it was time for some 750’s.
Although still feeling exhausted I figured my legs may be slightly fresher than I thought and targeted my 12 month standing PB of 1.31.2 for the session.
Rep 1 told me all I needed to know about how this set was going to go so set up camp for a tough grind and looked to see the session out with consistency knowing full well there would be no heroics.
I felt like I had cracked after rep 2 and thought of 3 reasons to HD. In the break I composed myself and thought of 4 reasons to carry on.
A 5 minute walk and then a 2km plod to try and flush didn’t work particularly well and I felt pretty rough for some time after. Tomorrow some more recovery work before heading into the taper next week. It’s just training …….
