Visit to Hi-Tech Bikes in San Diego

Hey!  We dropped in on Hi-Tech Bikes to pick up a rental and they gave us a nice show.  Make sure you check them out!

On the Way to ZenTri Basecamp!

We're on our way to ZenTri Base Camp!  Check out the agenda here - http://bit.ly/fixUdx

Podcast - Overtrained (I'm a Grown Ass Man)

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This episode of the ZenTri Podcast covers overtraining - how to identify it and get started fixing it.

Huge thanks to the awesome Rich Roll for talking to me about it!  Also there are audio clips inside from the incredible WTF Podcast and the Paul Crick YouTube Channel.  Enjoy!

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Overtrained

If you Google the symptoms of overtraining, one of the oddest results is that the person doing it usually has no idea and thinks that he/she needs to train even more.  It often takes others to notice and point it out, frequently to the disbelief of the athlete.

In the upcoming podcast, I will talk about how I figured out that I was becoming overtrained and the great phone call I had with Ultraman RichRoll that helped me see the light.  I will talk about the common misconceptions, traps, and stories of others (Such as the great American marathoner, Ryan Hall) who have dealt with it and also the one big indicator that both Rich and I had in common that practially shouts, "Overtrained!" that everybody should know about.  

I'll be recording it the podcast today and have it out as soon as possible.  Stay tuned for it and enjoy!

Weekly Totals and Review, Jan 3rd - 9th.

I have to quit doing those blog posts where I compile all the workouts for the last week.  I doesn't look like it, but they take at least an hour or two to get done.  I mean, if that's all I did, it'd be worth it.  But look, we're triathletes and we got better sh*t to do!

So let's just look at some highlights and totals for the week instead.  That's where the meat is anyway, even for all you vegan-gladiator types out there.  Let's even do it in bullet points so all you ADD triathletes can stay focused. (You know who you are)

• I totalled just over 16 hours for the week, so that's nice.  Anything over 15 makes me feel productive.
• I've upped my resistance training time and it's paid off.  I've added about 10 lbs. of muscle in just a few weeks.
• The pool opened back up, so now I'm back in it and got in three sessions last week.  I swam around 1200 yards total.
• I'm fighting some kind of weird tiredness issue I get only on the bike.  Since it's single sport related, it's making me think it's a nutrition habit I have centered around that sport.  I'm betting that I don't intake enough sugar while biking.  Here's an HR graph from a bike ride where I simply quit after a while after not "feeling it."  If I knew what "it" was, then maybe I could "feel it" better.  I also can't tell you how exciting it is to find out that one of the symptoms of overtraining is the denial of being overtrained.  Hey Stephen Hawking, you're a black hole.  Disagreeing with me just proves it's true, so back off.
• I've cut back on the number of speedwork sessions.  I think I've gotten all I can out of those for a while without having them wear me out like a pair of old underpants.
• In my never-ending habit of creating distractions, I bought a jumprope.  With nearly zero experience, I immediately tried to go 30 minutes nonstop.  I'll be paying for that later with calf-pain dollar bills.

So we got ZenTri Base Camp coming up this week and also the Rocky Raccoon 100 soon after that.  I'm also going to spend time figuring out if I'm overtrained or just under sugared.  Of course, over sugaring may make the overtraining feel better, but in the end, you end up just an oversugared and overtrained mess of jogging shorts and HR straps weeping in the corner, hating your parents and USAT.  I'd have more to say, but I'm busy drinking a milkshake. :)