{"id":12376,"date":"2024-10-12T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=12376"},"modified":"2024-10-12T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T15:11:46","slug":"a-knackered-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/a-knackered-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Knackered Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

For two days I rode twenty five kilometres, which, by my standards, are quite small rides. Today I rode with a group and for a while I was fine but then, when I climbed from Nyon towards Duillier I began to feel that I was fatigued. I slowed down and I couldn’t keep up with the group, or more accurately, the group had better acceleration and once you’re dropped you have to make more effort.<\/p>\n

This is a group that I know rides hard, but more than riding hard, I think they’re fresher than me. I already had 50km from the last two days so I had some fatigue. The other difference is that I have been riding just 1000 kilometres this year so I don’t put out as much power as sometimes.<\/p>\n

The other factor is that I should have carb loaded the night before. I had protein, which is good, but I was low on carbs. I considered having pasta for breakfast to build up my reserves but chose not to. That was a mistake.<\/p>\n

The paradox is that the group wasn’t that much faster than me. It’s that I wasn’t accelerating as hard as them, so I was dropped. If I had sped up at the same speed the ride would have been comfortable.<\/p>\n

Some people would say "if the group is too hard, find another one to ride with. I don’t think that way. When I hike I’m always at the front. I’m always comfortable. For once I’m the one that is struggling.<\/p>\n

For me, this is a sign that I need to train harder, to get back up to a good level of fitness, especially to keep up. If I was fresher I would have struggled less.<\/p>\n

The other factor is that I had a cold for two weeks, and in that time I lost a little fitness so I have to make it up. I would have gone for several rides within the last two weeks if I had felt up to it.<\/p>\n

Despite saying that I felt weak and slow today I cycled over fifty kilometres at twenty four point seven kilometres per hour despite being hungry and fatigued. I got 20 achievements of which several personal records. In the end I think fatigue, and no breakfast played the biggest role. If I had eaten well, and not ridden twice in the days before, I would have been fine.<\/p>\n

If I had achieved as much in a solo ride I would have counted it as a success. It was a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>For two days I rode twenty five kilometres, which, by my standards, are quite small rides. Today I rode with a group and for a while I was fine but then, when I climbed from Nyon towards Duillier I began to feel that I was fatigued. I slowed down and I couldn’t keep up with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[736,25,533],"tags":[733,5076,5111,713,859,2894],"class_list":["post-12376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-social-networking","category-switzerland-2","tag-cycling","tag-effort","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-tired"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12377,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions\/12377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}