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Old 09-05-07, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by WCroadie
I felt like crap the past 4-5 weeks, tired, cranky, legs felt dead all the time. I would do my regular training rides/races and get dropped when all summer I could keep up easily. I felt like I had no power in my legs. I just recently got a coach, I told him with a bit more detail about how I was feeling and he said it sounds like classic overtraining.

He told me to ride 3x a week for about 1 hour and 60% MHR and to do this for 4 weeks. He said I can run/swim, etc but no more then that on the bike. Can anyone offer me some other advice? Has any of you gone through this before?

Thanks.
I was getting to that point. Normal rides would tire me out, I couldn't stay in zone2, and really didn't want to be on a bike. Taking a week off the bike did wonders! I was enjoying being on a bike again, and my power went up.
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