Originally Posted by
mike868y
Thanks ze. I have had the pm for about a month and I backlogged a bunch of ride before that, so is it safe to assume that the values are at least a close approximation?
I'm at 68 LTS right now and I feel completely burnt out, that seems really low though. And I just got to the part of the Training Bible where Friel talks about having a positive SB going into an A race. My SB is -30. Even after my rest week a few weeks ago it only got up to -10.
The reason I'm asking this is because my last A race of the season is this coming Saturday and I've been feeling really fatigued and I want to try and go into this race with somewhat decent form.
A -30 TSB is pretty low, that's why you're ass dragging. Here's the bad news, if your A race is this Saturday, you're not going to be ready for it. Sorry, but there's no way you're going to get enough rest between now and then.
The key to getting out of the gutter is rest, period, plain and simple.
REST IS WHAT MAKES YOU STRONGER
You need to rest and recover to get stronger. That's all there is to it. I really try to avoid taking more than 2 days off the bike because my legs will block up, but if I'm 2 weeks out from an A event then I'll go ahead and take that 3-4 day rest immediately, and then ride enough to keep the legs from being blocked, but not so hard to cause more fatigue.
Looking over the training thread, you had a hard group ride yesterday (7/28), a 20' test on 7/27, and I'm not sure if it was 7/24 or 7/17 where you did a 180 mile weekend. Considering this was supposed to be the week of an A race, you've gone too hard bucky.
Here's what I probably would have done if this was MY A race: I would have taken most of last week off, then this week I would have done 90 minutes on Tuesday with mixed (balls hard, balls easy) to unblock the legs. I would have gone SUPER easy on Wednesday, I mean so damned easy my butt would hurt. And I would do nothing more than light endurance today. And tomorrow I would do openers, and Saturday I would have raced.
You need to rest harder than you train, period.