Read a good article recently about how a bad day at work can create more stress on your body than an interval workout and too much stress will cause you to blow up.
I was wasted BEFORE I started my last race. Sick, worn out - even after a nice taper week where of course I caught up on all the work I had fallen behind on during my big training weeks.
I was fine going into the swim and bike, but started to feel it at the end of the bike and when I got off the bike, I cramped up pretty bad. Dehydration was a big part of it and not getting out of the saddle every once caused limited blood flow to where my ass pressed against the saddle, which is exactly where I cramped up.
But the reality was my head wasn't in the game. I just couldn't focus. Fortunately I had a good level of fitness that carried me through a solid bike split, but I totally ran out of energy on the run.
So I am trying to balance things better and consider the whole spectrum of stress that I go through every day. I'm thinking about a stress score system: each hour under 8 hours of sleep adds 1 to the stress score. Each unbalanced meal adds 1 to the stress core. Hard interval session add 2. Stressful day at work add 2. Add 1 for every beer after the first beer. You get the idea.
Try to keep the stress score under 5 each day and try to have 1 day a week as less than 2.
Ok, time to get to bed. Gotta keep that stress score down.
I was wasted BEFORE I started my last race. Sick, worn out - even after a nice taper week where of course I caught up on all the work I had fallen behind on during my big training weeks.
I was fine going into the swim and bike, but started to feel it at the end of the bike and when I got off the bike, I cramped up pretty bad. Dehydration was a big part of it and not getting out of the saddle every once caused limited blood flow to where my ass pressed against the saddle, which is exactly where I cramped up.
But the reality was my head wasn't in the game. I just couldn't focus. Fortunately I had a good level of fitness that carried me through a solid bike split, but I totally ran out of energy on the run.
So I am trying to balance things better and consider the whole spectrum of stress that I go through every day. I'm thinking about a stress score system: each hour under 8 hours of sleep adds 1 to the stress score. Each unbalanced meal adds 1 to the stress core. Hard interval session add 2. Stressful day at work add 2. Add 1 for every beer after the first beer. You get the idea.
Try to keep the stress score under 5 each day and try to have 1 day a week as less than 2.
Ok, time to get to bed. Gotta keep that stress score down.
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