Training Log Archive: fletch

Similar to the last two. Like that max HR (actual probably 188) - must have been working hard!

Forgot to stop watch at end. About 45 min moving time. Windy today.

10 minute blocks gradually getting harder, up to something that really shouldn't feel hard at all, but did. Trying to keep cadence around 90, but it was probably low-mid 80's most of the time.
Might figure out what gear combos I was in just to laugh at my own patheticness.

On the bright side, I've been on a bike three times in a week. It's in danger of becoming a habit.

As per Monday. Felt quite nauseous after the one sprint again. Not feeling at all fit.
Picked up a new bike for school yesterday. Bike shops are dangerous. Nearly walked out with a full carbon roadie for me at the same time.

Had built up hopes of running straight after my next physio appointment (1.5 weeks), only to go and hurt it again somehow while taking a class abseiling in Kalbarri gorges on Friday. Probably nothing serious, but after managing to jog around a little collecting controls from my Midwest Orienteering Championships on Thursday completely pain free, it was a little disappointing. Hopefully will settle back down sooner rather than later.

School ride with a few Year 6's and a year 8. Not overly intense, but nice to go for a little roll around after sorting out the tyre that managed to pop itself after I pumped it up last week, only to bail on riding when it hit 40 degrees two days in a row.

Feel much more human now I'm not pumped full of phenergan and steroids. Might even exercise by the end of the week.

Would be nice to know what triggered the reaction, but not keen enough to start food testing...

Felt pretty wiped today and left work early. Could be any combination of body recovering from allergic reaction, three rubbish sleeps in a row and the medication that I've been on.

On the bright side, achilles is much less grumpy with the new rehab routine. Seems much more settled and I can actually imagine running again in the not-too distant future.

It seems that my body is trying to develop some new allergies to unknown foods. Got itchy after dinner on Friday and covered in welts when I botheresd to look in the morning. They settled during the day, then came back with a vengeance on Saturday evening. Face and lips puffed up along with many other bits of me. Still covered on Sunday morning, so went and sat in hospital emergency for a while. Got some drugs.

So it seems I no longer need to exercise to get food allergies to kick in, and there's more than likely an unknown trigger on top of milk and peanuts. I could probably sort Friday night's leftovers into individual foodstuffs and try to trigger myself again by eating one at a time, but it just doesn't sound like that great an idea.

Physio says absolutely no running for at least six more weeks. Can ride as much as I want, so might just have to do more of that, as lack of exercise is leaving me flat, grumpy and sleeping badly.
Had hit the point with rehab where the calf exercises didn't seem to be fixing anything any more, just leaving my achilles permanently irritated- as has happened before. Calf raises now modified to be single leg, but starting from and lowering back down to a flat floor. Apoarently I should be able to do 40 in one set, which is double what i can do with either leg at the moment.