These are the "during" and "after" shots from the fire yesterday. Pretty gnarly stuff. It's funny but I didn't realize how much the whole ordeal took out of me until hours later. I was able to get out on the bike for a little bit shortly afterwards, but once I got home and settled I fell almost immediately asleep. Interesting how stress works like that.Today was just a very easy 40 minute swim. About 90% of the time was spent doing drills and the other 10% was used up in practicing what I went over with my new swim coach this past Thursday. I'm very excited about the progress I've made as well as the progress I will make for the rest of the winter with my swim. It's not going to take me millions of laps, but rather discipline to get to where I need to be.
Tomorrow is a nice long ride and then a rest day Monday. The foot is really coming along and I think it'll be ready to run on by next week. This week has been super tough with not running. I've always had the choice of whether or not I want to train-it was never made for me, injury or not. This has been a real wakeup call. If not running for one week causes me this much stress and depression, I couldn't imagine what it would be like to have to go longer. I promise myself to never take another day of training for granted. It truly is a gift to be cherished and taken well care of.
Crazy! Endochrine system fatigue is what you felt. The 'fight or flight' mechanism elevated your hormone levels. You crashed afterward...
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's crazy how the human body works! I felt like I could have crushed 100 miles on that ride afterwards. Do you think the raise in hormone levels is gonna have a negative effect on my MAF training? :) What a crazy, albeit, unwanted, rush!
ReplyDeleteIt will affect you less because you are doing MAF training. High intensity has a similar effect as what you felt after the fire. Which is partly why high intensity efforts need to be used sparingly.
ReplyDeleteCool. Since reading into MAF a bit more, I've been nearly terrified to raise my HR any higher than prescibed. Maybe it's a little crazy but I want to get the most out of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks! And the Newtons definately should have burned along with the car-I half considered running inside to get them and throw 'em on the fire. With my luck though, they wouldn't have burned...evil shoes!!! :)