Yup, that’s right, vacations are bad. It doesn’t take much to lose any gains in fitness and vacations seem to accelerate those loses. Probably for two reasons, poor diet on vacation and less exercise. Sure, you will get physical activity in walking around Disney and you might even get out for a run, but most likely you will not put in the hours that you would have training if you were not on vacation. But hey, that is what vacations are for, being lazy.
I was on the CompuTrainer this morning for my Tempo ride. It was a much better ride than on Tuesday when I pretty much died on the thing. My heart rate was higher than it was two weeks ago when I did the same ride at pretty much the same power output. So, yeah, I’m still feeling the effects of vacation. It felt good to be able to sustain the effort for the entire workout today though and not have to back off. I can really feel it in my legs right now and since we had another 10 inches of snow drop last night I really felt it in my legs while snow blowing. After my rides now I’ve started taking a product from Hammer Nutrition called Recoverite. I will give it a try over the next month or two and see if I feel like it makes any difference in my recovery after my rides. During the rides I always use Perpetuem, another Hammer product, to keep hydrated and replace some of the calories being burned. I was going to use Gatorade but figured since I’m going to use Perpetuem on race day I might as well use it all through my training. Today I actually had two bottles of Perpetuem even though the ride was just over an hour, the second was after an hour of snow blowing. Maybe snow blowing will replace swimming as an event in Triathlon.
Weight: 168.8