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flyefisher
03-21-04, 12:35 PM
OK, so I've been training with the better guys on my team but the last couple of weekends I've had a sort of malaise about riding. Last weekend I did a training crit with a bunch of people, but I was just very sluggish throughout. Yesterday I just felt like I did not want to be out there. Riding 50-75 miles each day of each weekend, I've been taking it easy during the week except for one short but hard ride mid-week in preparation for racing in April.

Today I woke up and just didn't have the desire to go, but I feel guilty as all can be. Has anyone gotten to such an emotional malaise? It's March, the big-ring month and I feel like taking a Sunday off is sin. Perhaps the racing training is starting to take its toll... Perhaps the persistence of brisk, wet, snowy weather is getting old. I don't know. I've managed to keep good base mileage and enthusiasm all winter, but now after 1 month of hard training, I'm losing enthusiasm.

What to do?

auricpoe
03-21-04, 02:18 PM
Hey...dont know about racing, never done it, but where do you live in RI...im from there but going to school in CT at the moment??
Moonshot
03-21-04, 05:03 PM
What you have sounds like burnout. Some guys never seem affected by it, but it's happened to me before too.

I decided to do a cross state ride, but didn't train much. I rode 5 days @ 80+ miles per day. After I got back home I didn't ride again for 5 or 6 months.

Also, you could be overtraining.

Sorry, I don't know a cure for the malaise but I sympathize.

Resident
03-21-04, 05:22 PM
The best cure is recovery. Take a week off, then see where you're at. I'll occassionally throw in a cycling video - that'll get me out of a funk...
jfmckenna
03-21-04, 05:44 PM
You may be over training? Be careful and take some recovery time. If it ever does warm up in RI you may get psyched again for the new season. I was feeling very lazy today and it was actually snow flurrying. But I went out on the CX bike on some mountain trails and it was fun stuff. Maybe you are doing big rides without the smaller work outs that get you there?
flyefisher
03-23-04, 04:56 PM
I think I'm just sick and tired of cold weather. Bah Humbug.
Flaneur
03-23-04, 05:42 PM
Go catch up with those bits of the world that you eliminated when you started training seriously........take some time to see what you've been missing. Indulge yourself a bit...maybe eat a few things you usually don't at this point in your preparations.........re-categorise some of your early-season goals as build-up for later in the year.

Listen to what your head and body are saying but don't worry about it. The worst thing that's likely to happen is you don't place in some spring circuit race..........
RonH
03-24-04, 05:35 AM
Listen to your body/feelings. I ride better when I feel "crappy" and take a day off.