Something Is Going Wrong

I went to bed at 8.00 a.m this morning. I slept till 11.45 a.m. and then workers were banging and hammering outside. That's less than 4 hours sleep.
Fortunately it doesn't happen every day but it doesn't help either.

Don Shipp said:

Do you cycle to work? If so let that be all the training you do for a week or two.
Get eight hours sleep a night. (Stay off the computer.)
Give your body a chance to recover! You will come back healthier, stronger and fitter for having had a break.

Hello Carrera, been searching the forums for this type of thing and was wondering if you managed to back things off and overcome your health problems.
I think I'm going through a similar thing as I'm on my second bout of the flu in 2 1/2 months (3rd in 6 months) and was also thinking that I'd gotten my training zones up the spout as whenever I go over about 25 hours a month, I end up ill. I know that 25 hours isn't that much for some, but where I live, every ride means a lot of climbing so I think I tend to ride at too high an intensity. (sounds like your area)
The highest I've seen my HR at is 181 and I do most of climbs around here at around 160-162 (90%) which I can hold fairly comfortably for 30min, but surely spending so much time at these levels has got to be taking it's toll....hmmm, I'm probably answering my own question here.

flipper said:

Hello Carrera, been searching the forums for this type of thing and was wondering if you managed to back things off and overcome your health problems.
I think I'm going through a similar thing as I'm on my second bout of the flu in 2 1/2 months (3rd in 6 months) and was also thinking that I'd gotten my training zones up the spout as whenever I go over about 25 hours a month, I end up ill. I know that 25 hours isn't that much for some, but where I live, every ride means a lot of climbing so I think I tend to ride at too high an intensity. (sounds like your area)
The highest I've seen my HR at is 181 and I do most of climbs around here at around 160-162 (90%) which I can hold fairly comfortably for 30min, but surely spending so much time at these levels has got to be taking it's toll....hmmm, I'm probably answering my own question here.

He's been laid up all week with the squitters.

Don Shipp said:

He's been laid up all week with the squitters.

Say old chap, can you please explain what sort of disease the "squitters" would be?

Admittedly my command of the king's english is somewhat limited, but have not heard this term. If it's perchance derived from the word "squirt", ie, "to eject fluid in a thin stream", you needed go any further.

dhk said:

Say old chap, can you please explain what sort of disease the "squitters" would be?

It's British slang. Kind of like hopper. In fact squitters and hopper can easily be used together in a sentence. Of course, squitters can be used in a sentence with trousers too but that could be an embarrassing situation! :o

I'm happy to know my illness was merely caused by a general malaise in the area. Whole schools have gone down with it. My boss is also laid up (maybe worse than I was).
The said virus puts you on your back and causes chronic symptoms of the [censored] and I mean "chronic!"
Now I'm better. It really had nothing to do with overtraining.
Interestingly enough, after 4 days in bed without any food and having lost a stone in weight, I was able to ride again O.K. I noticed my legs were stronger on my first ride when I had regained half of my weight, previously lost. But fitness was down a bit.
I still plan to ride intensely and blast my way around on big gears, uphill and down. But I also take rest days if I feel like it.

flipper said:

Hello Carrera, been searching the forums for this type of thing and was wondering if you managed to back things off and overcome your health problems.
I think I'm going through a similar thing as I'm on my second bout of the flu in 2 1/2 months (3rd in 6 months) and was also thinking that I'd gotten my training zones up the spout as whenever I go over about 25 hours a month, I end up ill. I know that 25 hours isn't that much for some, but where I live, every ride means a lot of climbing so I think I tend to ride at too high an intensity. (sounds like your area)
The highest I've seen my HR at is 181 and I do most of climbs around here at around 160-162 (90%) which I can hold fairly comfortably for 30min, but surely spending so much time at these levels has got to be taking it's toll....hmmm, I'm probably answering my own question here.