Originally Posted by
*****3nin.vend3t
You’re not always going to have great training days. Life is filled with distractions, and you’re going to get stressed out. Combine that with a bad night’s sleep or a lack of food, overtraining and you’re looking at a lot of things that can potentially go wrong. The bottom line here is that you’re not going to have great days all the time. Everybody has less than stellar days, in fact if you train very hard, your probably going to have more bad than good especially mentally.
Yeah I totally get that. I'm just wondering what the actual cause is, physically, and what, if anything, I can do to avoid or lessen it.
Anyway, when I went out today (about another 20 commuting miles) I started out just where I left off yesterday. To try and expound on the feeling just a little more: It was like my legs would push weakly from the thighs, but then my calves were just jelly. It didn't feel like I could get the power to the pedal. It was just getting lost somewhere, like I had a backed up pipe or something, if that makes any sense. But once I hit the hill I came out of it and felt great. I was back to normal speed and effort, and everything seemed to be firing on all cylinders. Weird. Well, time to jump on the rollers.