Woke up in the middle of the night again. Stayed awake for an hour. Back to sleep with an episode of Sliders. Had a good ride this morning although legs are becoming extremely tight about an hour in to the ride. Also doing the Paleo diet now. Looking forward to feeling better and trimming down. Wanting to get lean and mean like 2 summers ago. (insert Taxi Driver voiceover here.)
Too much too soon?
It's been a long year of hard training and racing, both on the bike and trail running. Mentally I feel like a need a break at this point although I trained 39 hours in November, my 2nd highest total of the year and most of those hours were of high quality. Physically, I feel pretty fresh still. I feel as though I could just train year around but know that I need some sort of rest period for next year's race season. My training has remained fresh in part because I attained a road bike, which I've ridden about 12 hours so far. It's been a huge boon to my training although I still need to get a proper bike fit done to alleviate neck and knee pain. The training book I'm reading recommends to take a 2-4 week Transition period to let my body and mind recover before moving on to next year's Base phase. Question I'm pondering is when do I begin my Transition period...I feel like I'm in a great groove right now and I'd like to build up my Lactate thresh...