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June 26, 2005
Exhaustion
It’s official. Even with my bike weakness, I’m training hard. I had momentarily considered plans for a long bike ride this morning but after my run last night thought I may end up taking the day off since A) my knee felt weird during my run, B) my legs were tired from all of the training, and C) I am pretty darn tired.
I went to bed almost immediately after I posted last night and work up at 7. It’s annoying that I wake up early even if I am still tired (like when I woke up at 5 AM earlier this week and then half an hour later took a 2 hour nap). I ate breakfast, hung out for about 45 minutes, and then collapsed again until 11 AM. There is no bike ride to be had today.
I guess I have been training pretty hard for a few weeks now. The triathlon scares me so I have been doing either two a days of cardio (or doing brick workouts with the disciplines one right after the other) a few times a week or single workouts, plus weight lifting, plus core exercises, plus knee exercises, plus stretching, plus walking all day for work, plus getting up at 5:30 AM to do all of this stuff. It seems manageable on a daily level, but when I list it out like that I feel tired even reading about it. Compared to some of you all in blogger land who do cardio and/or run (far) twice a day (or more) this is normal and no sweat, but I am just TIRED. I’m not used to doing too much more than running and when I am injured I usually cap cross-training at 30 minutes b/c I am so bitter/bored.
I feel so much better after sleeping. I may do some knee exercises tonight b/c those are really important and not too taxing, but I need the day OFF. [As a side note, yesterday I tried the ab exercise they highlight in Shape this month and feel sore this morning-which is good-so I recommend that one.]
I have a few hours to kill and then I am going to see Dave Mathews Band with my sister and her friends tonight. It’s my quarter century birthday present a couple months early. Until then I will try and steer clear of my bed so that I can go to sleep tonight at a normal time to begin my training anew (and rested) tomorrow.
Posted by Audrey at June 26, 2005 11:24 AM
Comments
I don't know where those people come from, the ones that do two workouts a day. Maybe where Superman came from? I can get one workout in and that's it. And I hear ya on the tired. If I had your schedule, I'd be damn tired too. Rest when you need it, Audrey. That's part of your training too.
Posted by: Jon in Michigan at June 26, 2005 06:37 PM
I'm sure that you wrote before what the distances in your tri are, but I'm too lazy to go back and find them...so what are the distances? I know it is a 300m pool swim (much easier than open water) but I forget what the bike and run are. I would not stress too much about getting everything done everyday. I've done a few tris and have found that for the sprint distance that as long as you are in reasonably good shape (which you are) and able to do all three disciplines (which you can) that it is not that difficult to be competitive. That being said, rest is extremely important...sometimes more important than the actual training. Kudos for deciding that you were too tired today to do a workout, it was probably just what your body ordered. Good luck with the rest of your training!
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at June 26, 2005 07:13 PM
300 m swim (in a pool!)
12 mile bike ride
5 K run
what i really need to practice is the bike to run brick...haven't done that combination yet and i hear it's the hardest...
Posted by: Audrey at June 27, 2005 12:59 AM
Have a great time at the concert! We are hopefully going to see them in September. They are so awesome in concert.
And it is completely normal to be tired. Most of us are totally nuts!
Posted by: Barb at June 27, 2005 11:00 AM
Hey! I hope you had fun at the DMB concert. I definitely agreed with you about the running portion of the clinic. I didn't know all those rules about the bike, though. Crazy!
It's not uncommon to feel tired often when you train this hard, but make sure to listen to your body. If it's all the time and not just sleepiness, but lethargy, shortness of breath, etc., it might be an iron deficiency.
Posted by: Leilani at June 27, 2005 08:59 PM