Tried doing some searching but couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for. I know I’ve read it somewhere but I can’t find it again… If I missed it, my bad. Question is after your “A” race, how long do you typically give yourself for rest? I think I set myself up poorly and am trying to “diagnose”…

I can’t offer much insight here, but if you could give more details of the A race then that might help. Time and intensity would be useful things to know. Some people’s A race might be 1hr long, others could be 12 hours.

Good point - A race was relay cycling portion. 57 miles (yeah they added a mile). 2.38 time, 223 TSS. Was the hardest effort I’d ever done solo. [Capture]

My rule of thumb is to take one full days rest for each hour are part of racing. So for me and my A race that’s roughly 2 weeks total rest before easing back into training.

That sounds like a good rule. Do you ever feel sluggish after the rest period or “good to go”?

Yes, Always. But it doesn’t take long to get back into it. The danger is always with starting back too early. If you have not recovered enough it is much harder to return

also if you followed the plans and peaked before your race, you won’t be able to hold that peak for very long and your fitness could be waning and you’re trying to keep propping it up. Also, since you said it ‘Was the hardest effort I’d ever done solo’ there could be an amount of mental fatigue tha…

Can truly say I didn’t think about the mental portion of it. I’ve started experiencing my first sign of over-training (insomnia). It’s time to listen to my body and take a break. It’s so weird but mentally I feel like the body should be able to just keep pushing. Alas, it’s not a thing.

I’ll share my example. I tried doing 3 ‘A’ or whatever they could be considered races. I did DK200 on June 1st. Following 3 days off and then 2 easy days. By the next saturday I tried doing hard efforts and backed down both to Z2 rides. Then Coast2Coast (210m) in Michigan on June 22nd. I took 4 d…

I don’t think you can really apply any hard and fast rules. As you said, just listen to your body. You have to remember also that everyone’s experience is going to differ dramatically based on their training load. Someone conditioned to maintain 800+TSS/wk is going to have a very different respons…

[image] vladrath: Then I was so cracked, mentally and kind of physically that I took 9 days off, did 1 z2 ride, then took another 4 days off. It’s amazing to me how some of us can mentally push ourselves to the point of breaking. I always used to have the mentality that if you did the right s…

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WildWill October 8, 2019, 6:59pm 14

Yep. Its the same issue for multi-day races - I did 3 marathons in 3 days once, And my rule of thumb was no good for that too

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