Triathlon - Training while injured

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kevmk81
05-21-09, 10:33 AM
Since the Training and Nutrition part of this forum gets no respect, I'll test my question out here...

Last weekend on Saturday I took a spill on the bike. Yesterday I finally got back into things, went to the gym for a lifting session (minus some things that would take some hand strength - sprained hand). This morning I just did a run TT and my time was slower than past TT's, and my average heart rate seemed abnormally high for the 20 minutes (180 something, at a 7:29 pace). My question to you folks is this, if you have a lot of road rash, and a sprained (puffy) hand, and you go for a TT run, is the healing process supposed to sap a lot of energy, and make my heart work faster due to everything being healed/worked on? I couldn't of lost that much fitness since Saturday right? I typically could do a run TT with around a 7 minute pace, and a 170 heart rate earlier this season!?


DrPete
05-21-09, 02:33 PM
It's absolutely not a loss of fitness if it's only been a few days. For fairly mild injuries I wouldn't expect your HR to be elevated too much either, but your body is still under a lot of stress, so I would take it easy and not do things like TT's for now.

Heal up fast!