Training hard and still not sleeping, is this overtraining?

[harmonmonic]

@TRusername

Hi all,

I’m really hoping for some advice. I’ve never been a good sleeper but this past week has been absolutely horrible. Since this Sunday I’ve been getting up at 3 or 4AM. I’ll lie in bed until about 6, trying to sleep, only to give up having slept less than 4 hours.

I’ve been training pretty hard and I’d expect to be able to garmin customer service well. I remember Coach Chad mentioning that sleep disorders can be a symptom of overtraining. But can you be overtrained on a 6 hour week on the bike with 2 strength sessions?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

EDIT: Strangely enough, I started using HRV4Training and my recovery score is high despite my lack of sleep.

tried to go to the doctor?

[HLaB]

A lot of the symptoms I had lack of sleep and DOMS was put down to overtraining but it turned out to be lack of iron caused by a bowel/ colon cancer. Thankfully I’ve beaten it but I’m only just coming up for 45 and in hindsight the thing probably started to manifest in my late 30s (I’ve read about it occurring in even younger folk too. I’d urge anyone who has those problems to get a simple blood test. Chances are it’ll rule out the BC altogether but in the ‘worst case’ it’ll identify it at an early stage and it can be removed without any major surgery.