Recovery time

A very disappointing day's exercise today. I knew I needed to go easy and do some yoga this morning because my legs have been feeling beat this week and I've got a 130km ride tomorrow (so long as the rain eases up). But I had planned to get into the pool for a few kms and then go to the first Balmoral Triathlon Club track (running drills) session of the season tonight.

Yoga was fabulous, felt sensational. Except I did something funky to my left knee and couldn't do one position. Hopefully nothing major.

Then couldn't get away from work for a swim and decided just to run home, but man I was struggling hard just doing the 4km flat commute. the legs just felt like anvils and did not want to go. I figured trying to do hard running training would be just plain stupid. Thinking back it's clear that I haven't properly recovered from the weekend. It was a hard couple of days, but I didn't think it was a big deal, but in retrospect Saturday was a pretty big day to be running the fastest 10km race of my life (38:10), followed immediately by the longest bike ride of my life (127km) which was also he biggest climb I've ever done (over 1000m net altitude gain, not including ups and downs). Then backing up with a 2 hour half marathon distance run the very next day, taking one day off and hitting a hard turbo session followed a couple of hours later by a hard sprint session.

Ok so I shouldn't be too hard on myself for being softand not running tonight - my body is telling me in no uncertain terms it needs a little break. That's cool, hopefully it sorts itself out for a big ride tomorrow.

That's one of the coolest things about getting into this whole triathlon and endurance sport thing - getting to feel what your body can and can't do, getting to know its limits and how to safely progress. It's so interesting and instructive to walk the fine line between what your body wants or needs to do and what your mind tells you you should be doing. Are you tired just because you're being lame and need to get out there and train and you'll be fine, or does your body really need a recovery day and you shouldn't beat yourself up for missing a workout in that case.

It's all feedback baby, I feel every day i'm learning something. Ok off to bed, got to be up in a few hours to start this ride.