O T S

My legs have been sore for days. Nothing seemed to make it go away. Massage, hot baths, elevated legs to drain the bad blood and lactic acid. The legs were unhappy. This of course made me unhappy. Sigh, Over Training Syndrome. I have been here before. Over training for an older rider is easy to do. The meter for good training is slow. Just a little increase here and there. More days off than your mind tells you is good. Easier workouts than you think you want to do. All in all, over training is the worst. Once you are in it, it takes much longer to get out of it, than to get into it in the first place. I have hit the over training wall for the first time in 19 months. I found myself sleeping all morning. I'm still a bit tired. Food was just screaming at me yesterday. All the wrong food to. Peanut butter, bread and jelly. Any carb in the house. I wanted to eat it, and I did. I'm a diabetic!! I just have to not eat carbs very often. Proteins are the best. Potatoes and a few green. Not to many greens. I'm all upside down. Time to slow down. Take a few days off the bike. I hate missing my rides. I'm also going to have to reduce my mileage. Ease off on the stress load. I have worked so hard to get where I am today. I guess I have work a little better, not harder. It's going to take time to get out of this over training syndrome. Track racing starts this tonight! Dam. I'm just going to have to listen to the body. Let it recover. Feed it good food. Give it more rest than I think it needs. Reduce the mileage. Build back to a better place of fitness. Sigh. I hope I caught it early. I think not. 2 to 3 weeks of recovery are in order. I hope 2 weeks. No ride today.