Last week, in the grand scheme of training, was a rest week. Typically, that means shorter rides, and a couple of added days off. Any bits of up-tempo work are short and to the point.
However, I haven't been on the bike since Tuesday, not counting last night's ride to Qdoba. That part wasn't in the plan.
On Thursday, my throat felt a little scratchy. On Friday, it was really scratchy and I started feeling a little plugged up. On Saturday, I woke up and felt as if someone had been whacking me all night with a Wiffle Ball bat.
Yeah, that was great. I propped myself up on coffee and sugar to get through Saturday, got a good night's sleep and felt OK by Sunday. I've been coughing a lot, which means deep breathing is probably not the best idea. I entertained thoughts of a light spin when I saw the temperatures climbing, but figured the benefit would be pretty much nil — other than not going crazy.
As it was, I settled for dropping off Redbox movies and riding to Qdoba for burritos. Yeah, that's 35 minutes of ride time. Kapow!
Today was supposed to be one of my favorite workouts — 10 climbs up the neighborhood wall. It starts gradually, kicks, levels and kicks again. The last kick is out of the saddle, sprinting. It hurts every single time.
I'm guessing I couldn't get up the thing right now.
Health-wise, I should be back to (relative) normal tomorrow. I'll still probably go a little bit easy. No use rushing back into the heavy stuff when I'm not physically ready to do heavy stuff. I'm in enough of a hole — no need to make it deeper.
6 comments:
You know why you got sick don't you?
Germs, probably. That's how pretty much everybody gets sick.
Nope, karma, for talking smack weeks ago about the rest of us being sick.
Bah. That's the easy way out when you can't properly describe the series of complex immunological responses that result in illness.
MOD doesn't believe in complex immunological causality--he's just too old school for that kind of nonsense.
I, on the other hand, have a perfectly logical explanation for your illness: air conditioning. Or heating. Or something.
I was going to say training in general was the culprit since almost many who've been training consistently have gotten some sort of bug. However, after further review, Rafal hasn't been sick and I know he's been putting in wicked miles. Also my wife got sick, and since she doesn't train, indoor or out, training can be ruled out as the main culprit.
So yes, germs/karma, can be blamed for getting sick.
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