March Madness DNSx2

3 weeks ago I was stoked to kick this season off with MTS and Oceanside 70.3 when what started out as sniffle turned into a nearly 3 week debacle.   The exhaustion was so extreme I questioned my long term heath and even went to have blood work, a cxr, and took antibotics. Looks like it was some nasty viral illness.  My training came to a halt.  I ended up loosing a tremendous amount of fitness and gaining 10lbs!  I would like to have thought with a little rest (which I took, but likely too late) and self control (which I lacked) I should have been able to kick this thing in a couple days without such a drop in fitness and gain in wt.  Instead I had a pair of DNSs, a big setback in gen prep, and a shit load of wt to loose.

Shit happens and there is not much you can do about it.... Although I might not have been able to prevent this given training hard, working hard and in an ED all place me at crazy high risk for catching some nasty bugs, there were things that certainly contributed to this mess.

1) Overtraining.  4 weeks of >20hrs probably not the best idea.  My TTS was getting high and quickly.

2) Taking on too much!  Should have stuck with my plan and not given into peer pressure and ride Mt Hamilton on little sleep, when what I needed to do was sleep and then get a shorter FTH work out in.

3) Ran in the cold without cloths on!  Long run day before I got sick it was cold and windy followed by going out to dinner.

4) Pushed it to hard when I thought I was getting over it.  Ran 13ml with Alec and also road in the rain:( WTF was I thinking!!!

5) General poor sleep habits.  I know this is my "norm" but I specifically remember thinking "I am not getting enough sleep and this is bad"

Overall a combination of things brought this on but clearly things to work on and in keep in mind as "life goes on".

Power outage TT Torpedo

As mentioned before trying to transition my power into a TT Torpedo.  It's been a bit more challenging than I anticipated. PR OLH power 360 and Canada TT power 310.  Big drop off!  I was expecting to be able to pound out >330 fairly regularly but this is far from reality.  With some rest, practice, and continued improvement in the flexibility department I hope this will get closer to my climbing power.   I do feel one with the bike on a positive note!

Fish like, OLH 360, Run base building

Swim  38 Mile month!
25x100 near 1:20 2/wk has become the standard.  Mixing in PwP/drills totaling around 15000/week.  Interested to see what this will equate to in a HIM swim.  Shoulders have been feeling good.  Stretching esp straight arms back seems to help. 

Bike
New Ride!  Yeah!


OLH PR 19:30 with a 20min Power 360!  Awesome!  I am so proud of this and shows that you get good at doing what you practice doing.  More evidence to train at race like intensity!  Also leads into the need to transition into a TT torpedo! Overall lots of time in FTH in February. 


Stretching the ITB has been keeping things in check.  At this point I am confident that was the injury back on November.

Run 97mile month!
Got up to 30ml weeks!  Once again, stretching that ITB is proving essential.  Still Kicking it mostly in the Newton Gravity's, which I'm lovin!  Focusing on form as a priority.  Although not a lot to report "no news is good news"as Paul likes to say.

Nutrition
Wt down to 176!  Good job but still have work to do.  At this point each time I eat something I am choosing to win or loose.  Thin to win!  Continue the discipline and get this down.  Eating at home has help.  Continue to make first WO in the day a fasting one.   Power bars, apples and carrots go to at work.  No pigging out ate night.