Jerry Powell
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Pat, the voice I most trust on the issue of training while recovering
is Arnie Baker. Arnie has said that training responsibly while
recovering probably won't hurt you, and your recovery time might even
be improved... HOWEVER... a lot depends on how you've been training,
and on how you train now. IF you're overtrained (oftentimes folks
who get sick during the season or leading up to the season are
borderline overtrained to begin with) So the first thing to do is to
review what you've been doing. Overtraining can be defined as much
by a lack of sufficient rest as by too much work. So amp up the FOB
time, cut down the training time and increase the intensity right up
to a couple of days before the race. Get massage help. In the last
week, ramp up the amount of rest.
Remember that an ITT is as much a mental test as it is a strength and
power test... so enter it clear headed and rested.
Jerry
At 10:12 AM -0700 8/16/02, Pat Sagers wrote:
The state time trial is a week from Sunday. It's a very important
event for me. I've been training just for it for 3 months. I had
planned to have a two week taper with this week as the first week of
the taper. The problem is that I caught some sort of bug that has
had me off the bike since last Sunday. Today I feel like I could
ride, maybe 60 - 90 minutes, but I still feel fairly weak. With all
that said, I would like to hear from some of you that have had
something similar happen. My basic questions are 1) should I wait
to do a ride when I feel 100% or go ahead and ride a little while
only 75% recovered. And 2) Let's say that I'm 100% by Monday. That
leaves me 6 days to fit some riding in while leaving myself rested
for the TT. What would you do the week before the TT after coming
off a 7 day illness?
Thanks
Pat
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JMP
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<div>Pat, the voice I most trust on the issue of training while
recovering is Arnie Baker. Arnie has said that training
responsibly while recovering probably won't hurt you, and your
recovery time might even be improved... HOWEVER... a lot depends on
how you've been training, and on how you train now. IF you're
overtrained (oftentimes folks who get sick during the season or
leading up to the season are borderline overtrained to begin with)
So the first thing to do is to review what you've been doing.
Overtraining can be defined as much by a lack of sufficient rest as by
too much work. So amp up the FOB time, cut down the training
time and increase the intensity right up to a couple of days before
the race. Get massage help. In the last week, ramp up the
amount of rest.</div>
<div>Remember that an ITT is as much a mental test as it is a strength
and power test... so enter it clear headed and rested.</div>
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<div>Jerry</div>
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<div>At 10:12 AM -0700 8/16/02, Pat Sagers wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">The state
time trial is a week from Sunday. It's a very important event
for me. I've been training just for it for 3 months. I had
planned to have a two week taper with this week as the first week of
the taper. The problem is that I caught some sort of bug that
has had me off the bike since last Sunday. Today I feel like I
could ride, maybe 60 - 90 minutes, but I still feel fairly weak.
With all that said, I would like to hear from some of you that have
had something similar happen. My basic questions are 1) should I
wait to do a ride when I feel 100% or go ahead and ride a little while
only 75% recovered. And 2) Let's say that I'm 100% by Monday.
That leaves me 6 days to fit some riding in while leaving myself
rested for the TT. What would you do the week before the TT
after coming off a 7 day illness?</font></blockquote>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><i>Please note my new
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