Thursday came and went. It's now Saturday. No ride since Tuesday. My body just didn't have it in it to go. I slept almost all of Wednesday. Still very tired on Thursday. Just starting to recover on Friday. Over Training Syndrome (OTS). It's when the body has used it self up and can't recover through rest. I was working hard and not resting well enough. It was not the food. It to some degree was not the rides. It is my age. My body just needs better rest between rides. Rest is where all the benefits of the work out come. Add to this I am diabetic and I do not metabolize food well. The glycogen does not get to my muscles and I have no fuel for rides. I was bonking on the last few rides. Bonk is when you run out of fuel. OTS and diabetes makes for a bad combination. Rest is all I can do, 3 to 5 days is what the information sheet seems to think. I'm on my forth day. I can hardly stand it. I want to ride. Still I have to shorten my rides to 25 or 30 miles. Use an easy gear all the time. Keep the heart rate on the low side. Start to build up to the miles again. I guess it's just a new goal. Over come this problem. Well the work out I can deal with. The diabetes there is a medical protocol that I have to get more meds for. Getting older I have no choice in. I'll go out today in the cold wet wind again. This time I'll go out easy. Work at rebuilding. Funny, I worked so hard this Winter. Then my diabetes kicked me because I did not have the right amount of a drug. My fault for not having a local Dr. to get me the drug I need and the amount I need more than that. I didn't see it coming. Well here it is!
So I am going to go out for a short ride today. 25 to 30 miles in a easy gear. Be careful of the fuel and glyogen.
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My name is David Lee Gordon. I'm 58 years old. I live by my own ideas. I am my work. I work at riding my bicycle long miles. I live by the action of the moment right in front of me. I choose to reach out to life. I choose to "Livestrong". This blog is about today. The past is a very small event. Just a little color. The enteries will be about the adventure as I see it. Just the day. A moment of the life I see and feel.
About Me
- Gordon
- I'm a bicycle rider. More to the truth I train on the bike to stay fit as I get older. I train to fight off the age. Diebedes, high blood pressure, trigeminal neuralgia, unwanted weight and the problems from that to. There is a host of other age related fun to. I let myself put on 110 pounds over about the last 12 years. Then the body just had enough. I was falling apart. So I started doing the only thing I knew how to do. Train on the bike. I was a competitive Cyclist from 1979 to about 1992. I gave it all up. Bad choice. In the end I would have been far better off on the bike. Oh well. The lessons continue. That's really the truth of it. The lessons continue. Everyday, every moment. Everything is connected all the time. Well, that's how I see the Universe for me. How you see it, is your business. Ah freedom of thought. I got married to a wonderful woman March 21st 2007. The love of my life. It's true! It took all these 58 years to get ready to love this one beautiful woman. A writer of poems. A writer of pros. So many people know her already.
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