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hcivic91
07-11-04, 03:14 PM
Hi all,
as I sit here uncomfortably and type this I am looking for the answer to how to recover,
and recover quickly from overtraining. I am a young aspiring racer with 2 time trials
coming up next week. Sunday one week from today is a 5mile TT followed Tuesday by
a TT of 13.4miles. The week before last I really over did it doing 550milles in 5days of
riding many of which were done very fast, these miles left it hard to walk last sunday and
monday. I took sunday, monday and tuesday completly off from activity. Wednesday, thursday,
and friday I went very easy but yesterday I did a pretty hard 75 which has left me a sore again today.
I am now wondering what you think I should do to be as fresh as possible for next sunday and tuesdays
time trails?

thanks for your suggestions,
Joseph

Hitchy
07-11-04, 11:30 PM
G'day,

I guess I'm wondering why you are doing so big mileage, when your racing focus is on short T/T's?...what's the grand plan?

cheers,

Hitchy
jfmckenna
07-12-04, 06:59 AM
If you are truly suffering from over training you may need to take the rest of the year off :( The miles you say you did is more like a stage race rather than a short TT. I don't know how exactally to train for TT's but that doesn't seem right? After yesterdays 75 I would do 20 today easy, perhaps a short interval session tuesday, 30 easy wed, 50 on thursday spinning with no coasting or breaks, 20 recovery on Friday and Saterday off maintain the bike and take it for a test spin. You really have to know how to ride easy because it is just as important. If you find yourself filling up on your easy days than you've blown it. Do you use an HRM?

BanditManDan
07-16-04, 10:41 AM
I agree with what others are saying, your putting in to many miles if your training for a TT of 13 miles. But in any case you need to keep in mind that REST is just as important as RIDING. Your muscles need time to recover/rebuild after a hard effort, if not you are simply re-injuring them over and over again and they never get stronger. You can easily tell when you need to rest, muscle soreness means your muscles are injured and need to recover/rebuild.