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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Last week I came to the point in my season where I needed to take some time off the bike. I do this a couple of times every year so I avoid overtaxing my body and after teh Macon MTB race I was definitely ready for a break. So I took a week off and tried to relax and do very few things that would tax my body.

So this week I started back. Monday was a nice, solid 40 mile ride followed by a easy spin with a student. I slept great and felt good getting up yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon I put in a good, hard rolling hills ride down to Macon. I could tell that I had pushed really hard when my legs sort of quit on me at 40 miles with about 10 more to go. I had been riding into a 5-10 mph headwind the whole way and ended up wearing myself out a bit. The problem was I couldn't get to sleep last night. That usually means you've overtrained. Yikes! I've ridden two days and I'm overtrained? I'm hoping it's a case of coming back too hard, too soon after my break and a recovery ride will fix it.

If not, then I have to give some thought to the fact that I might be chronically overtrained and need more time off or time spent riding easy. Lots of time spent riding easy.

We'll see.

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