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".
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