OH, THERE'S MY LYCRA
GOT MY LYCRA HANDED TO ME LAST NIGHT. The course was nearly identical to the week before, Strava says my little ol' heart was ticking harder than last week's race...
... so, like any fool, I checked to see if my brakes were rubbing!
I mean jeeeeez... my splits were slower, and I was 3 min behind the winner and 2 min behind guys I'd battled the week before.
Whattheheck happened?
The weather was perfect for racing, overcast and cool. Same as week before.
There's a ton of data to dig through on Strava and other places...
- Freshness/Fitness
- Training time
- Effort distribution
- Weight
- Sleep
- Food
- Stress
... here goes:
Stress, I've had to decline some opportunities to give service and time lately and it was stressful to say no.
Food, I definitely cut my calories to get back to race weight last week... and skipping breakfast on raceay was a bozo nono.
Sleep, has been way off. Getting a decent amount, but staying up too late.
Weight, I'm down 2 lbs from last week, maybe too much too fast.
Effort, last week, I went out Thursday and drilled it again then went long on Saturday.
Training time, last week was about double the hours from the week before but less than I was doing a year ago.
Fitness/Freshness, this is the biggie... and a big change from this time last year.
Monday 5/8/23 Fitness 108, Form 19
Monday 5/1/23 Fitness 108, Form 27
Monday 5/9/22 Fitness 127, Form -8
I was definitely in a better place a week ago than this week, and it showed.
What is interesting to me is that my Fitness was quite a bit higher last year and my Form lower, but I was racing better
Let's see what happens in the coming weeks as I get back to last year's training during this series...
... hard race Tuesday,
long Zone 2 and 3 Saturday,
all the other days are Zone 1 and 2.
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163.2
8 hrs
1 Circuit of RaceDay Ready Resistance Training
20 minutes recovery
60 minutes reading + Journaling
Podcast:
https://www.strava.com/athletes/10248