by willhub
Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:45 am
Well its been discussed in a thread allready abit but I took that thread off the rails and sorry for that.
Anyway, its a BIG problem, and maybe its what has caused other cyclists to quit for a long time before?
Over the past weeks I've been doing the sunday rides, and odd aturday ride instead like yesterday, and I have noticed I am finding it harder to do long miles, basically seems my endurace is going down the drain.
Now yesterday I went on howards saturday ride, 46 miles in we stopped for a cafe stop and I felt perfectly fine still, I also thought I was doing pretty good and would find it no problem as it was chucking it down with rain and was around 15 degrees maybe less.
Anyway from there we went up to dalby forest and into the forest drive, I was doing fine for abit but thats when it started going wrong, I was getting slower and slower and feeling so tired, really it was at one point I instantly felt like I was doing ok then suddenly felt crappy.
For the rest of the way home I was just thinking I just cant wait to get home now, felt tired and crappy, lost all energy, that was like 40-50miles aswell, into a headwind I was struggling and it calmed down abit so I tried to keep on the back wheel of howard and that but I could not, fell back quite a way, could not put in any power to the pedals at all.
Now I was really dissapointed and if this keeps happening I dont want to continue doing these rides as I know I cant do them at the moment, I could I could clearly see I lost all power as on the way home I was going really smooth and no matter what the weather usually is like thats where I can usually keep putting loads of power in and get home pretty fast, because its the end of the ride and I'm tired and want to get home. There was parts where I felt I could put a little bit of power in but never lasted long.
Anyway I dont know what to do, if its still due to overtraining or what.
Today I'm not going anyway, and maybe it would be wise to take the whole week off cycling untill like saturday, I want to get back what I used to be able to do so I can do the tan hill in 2 weeks time.
anything udner 50 miles I'm fine, I am alot faster than I used to be so I havent lost speed when I want to go fast, just cant do as many miles, infact around 80 miles yesterday is where I used to feel around 120-140miles. so I'm doing really badly at the moment.
And yesterday I was eating snack bars regular and had fish at cafe stop and drank plenty of water.
And given the high winds that are everyday next week apparently apart from one day If I was to go out on a day with high winds no matter what into the wind I would be pushing hard as that cant be avoided unless I walk so should I take the whole week off cycling?
Anyway, its a BIG problem, and maybe its what has caused other cyclists to quit for a long time before?
Over the past weeks I've been doing the sunday rides, and odd aturday ride instead like yesterday, and I have noticed I am finding it harder to do long miles, basically seems my endurace is going down the drain.
Now yesterday I went on howards saturday ride, 46 miles in we stopped for a cafe stop and I felt perfectly fine still, I also thought I was doing pretty good and would find it no problem as it was chucking it down with rain and was around 15 degrees maybe less.
Anyway from there we went up to dalby forest and into the forest drive, I was doing fine for abit but thats when it started going wrong, I was getting slower and slower and feeling so tired, really it was at one point I instantly felt like I was doing ok then suddenly felt crappy.
For the rest of the way home I was just thinking I just cant wait to get home now, felt tired and crappy, lost all energy, that was like 40-50miles aswell, into a headwind I was struggling and it calmed down abit so I tried to keep on the back wheel of howard and that but I could not, fell back quite a way, could not put in any power to the pedals at all.
Now I was really dissapointed and if this keeps happening I dont want to continue doing these rides as I know I cant do them at the moment, I could I could clearly see I lost all power as on the way home I was going really smooth and no matter what the weather usually is like thats where I can usually keep putting loads of power in and get home pretty fast, because its the end of the ride and I'm tired and want to get home. There was parts where I felt I could put a little bit of power in but never lasted long.
Anyway I dont know what to do, if its still due to overtraining or what.
Today I'm not going anyway, and maybe it would be wise to take the whole week off cycling untill like saturday, I want to get back what I used to be able to do so I can do the tan hill in 2 weeks time.
anything udner 50 miles I'm fine, I am alot faster than I used to be so I havent lost speed when I want to go fast, just cant do as many miles, infact around 80 miles yesterday is where I used to feel around 120-140miles. so I'm doing really badly at the moment.
And yesterday I was eating snack bars regular and had fish at cafe stop and drank plenty of water.
And given the high winds that are everyday next week apparently apart from one day If I was to go out on a day with high winds no matter what into the wind I would be pushing hard as that cant be avoided unless I walk so should I take the whole week off cycling?