Subject: Bike workout went bad Today was my big 6 hour ride. Last week I did a 5.5 hour ride...on the trainer (yeah...the trainer ). Today I wanted to see if I could knock up the watts just a few to see I could get closer to me IM goal to 70-72% of FTP, which should be easy. Well things were going well until 3:30 and then I crashed. My average was at the tip of Z2 and then it became very hard to even stay in Z2 but I did. I told myself I would complete the entire 6 hours but as I was going back to my car for stop #3 for refills, I gave up and did my "hour brick" (which was shortened and also way slower than normal ). I then went home and crashed....hard. I had 2 Ensures for a recovery drink, took a shower, and then crashed on my bed. I then woke up and went to the couch and couldn't even get up to eat for about two hours. I just uploaded my data and my Z2 power ride had me HR in Z3 for 4:30....which means my Aerobic Decoupling was over 15%....which is not a good sign since IMWI is 3 weeks away.
Has anyone else had an experience like that? I'm mad I didn't complete the last hour but looking at the data now, I don't feel so bad. I'm trying to figure out why this happened though. I don't feel sick. My hip got tweaked a little on Tuesday from a track workout and I skipped running Friday (which sucks but I didn't want to risk an injury from running 90 minutes this close to race with an unknown injury ). Anyone else have an experience like this before? |