I have just finished some interval training and I am absolutely stuffed. I just want to go to bed and sleep for a couple of days. Its not the intervals that have taken it out of me nor is it the volume of training (either the number of sessions or amount of time I have spent training). It is the fact that I have not been following Coach Geoff's instructions on the intensity of my training. In particualr I am pushing far too hard on the bike. For example's Sunday's ride was supposed to be 'easy' intensity but I pushed to more like half ironman pace for the whole three hours and then yesterday I got a great tail wind on an 'Ironman' (IM) pace progression so I decided that it was ok to do 40-45km/h (I maxed out at almost 47km/hr) all the way back from Broad Bay.
There is a reason that Geoff prescribes very detailled and specific intensity, duration and schedule for my training and I know I need to be doing this, but on the bike in particualr, I jus can't help myself. This week Geoff has added an extra swim session so that I have had four days in a row of swimming (for the first time ever) and it has been quite draining (if you'll excuse the water pun :-)), but I know that I'd have coped much better if I had listened to Geoff about the intensity of ALL of my workouts.
Geoff definitely knows best and from now on I am going to follow him to the absolute letter.
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