This week I
have been able to enjoy the lures of glory. I have been congratulated by many
people due to last week’s race. It has been nice to feel this aureola of a
champion but now it is time to go back down to earth and get focused for the
next challenges that I will have to face.
I took two
days off training and then I started to go back to it very gently. These two
days that I took off were very good to rest and to recharge the batteries plus
I was not able to do much. Even though I had thought that I would have felt
worse after the race I was fairly ok, I was able to walk from the first day
without much pain on my legs and by the second day I was nearly fine.
On
Wednesday I biked for one hour, very easy just to start recovering. It was hard
to stand up on the bike but I felt good, not as tired as I had expected. So it
was a recovery ride, just to start to get in to the routine again. By the
afternoon I swam, I went to the swimming pool earlier than the team’s schedule
but I found a mate and we decided to train together, we both had run the
marathon and both of us seemed pretty good after the effort.
On Thursday
I started with my mind focusing on Frankfurt. I did my first bike session
working on force with a touch of endurance at the end of the session. It was
not easy and surprisingly my power meter has started to play funny which it is
a pain in the ass as I really need it for training. In the afternoon I went to
the treadmill for some jogging, I did only a 30minutes session at much lower
pace than the marathon pace but it did not fill very good, I could clearly see
that I was not ready for running at that moment. My muscles were still sore and
even though I had not lost the form like it has happened in the past I did not
feel that good.
On Friday I
did another recovery-endurance session on the bike. I was feeling better but
not at where I would like to be at this moment. In the afternoon I swam with
the team. It was a good session with a few for hundreds sets that I swam
probably faster than I would imagine and I was feeling good in the water for
the first time in a month or so. I was feeling like I was nailing it, it was
the feeling as I don’t have any time reference but it was good, it is good to
feel good in one of the sports, especially if it is a limiter.
At last I
when for the long ride of the week, It felt awful, I did not find the pace, the
power meter is still not working even with a new battery, maybe I had taken a
harder road but the pace was very slow, and the ride felt very long, I wanted
to drop the bike after two hours and I was just at the middle of the session. I
have even stopped to get a new battery which it is very uncommon that I stop on
long rides but I did not feel any better after the stop. The day was very good,
why wasn’t my body in consonance with the shining sun?
I think I
have been taking the unhappiness from other aspects of my life into my
training. That is not good. I am feeling good with my situation and I am
getting most of the things that I wanted but not everything is so perfect and
it is affecting my performance. Sure I am far better than a week ago but there
is something that can still improve. And I am not sure what it is but my sleep
has started to suffer, I get up too often at night, even though I have to say
that I am sleeping much better than last year. I am resting a lot more and I
can feel that. I have become a little more disciplined on that and that is
tough. Let’s see go it evolves.
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