Bad luck comes in fours?

After a week of cars breaking down and DVD recording crapping out during TdF and associated stress was hoping for a better week. No chance. With working on Saturdays I don't get to road race so did MTB night racing for a good solid 60min workout. Ended crashing 3 times and have bruised my ribs again. Then on Saturday got food poisoning and spent a day of expelling everything and not sleeping.

Good exercise in tracking the signals of overtraining and the body not being fit for hard training. Resting HR went up 25bpm and temperature 1.5 degrees. Good news was everything was back to normal a day later although took care not to push it today.

Monday:

TSB -8.2, RHR 58bpm, temp 36.1, sleep 8hrs, qual ok, felt good.

Spent day messing around on stuff so not up for training at night.

Tuesday:

TSB -4.6, RHR 54bpm, temp 36.0, sleep 7hrs, qual ave, felt good.

1st trainer session in a while. 1/1min intervals at max aerobic power. Found it hard to get into it. Missing the snap. Hard work at high cadence. For last two reps dropped the cadence and power shot up. Heart rate was higher for high cadence efforts. Really worked on controlling start of efforts.

Entire workout (175 watts):
.Duration: .49:08 (51:20)
.Work: .513 kJ
.TSS: .76.4 (intensity factor 0.97)
.Norm Power:.216

Peak 1min (350 watts): (effort 7/8)
.Power: .226.493.350 .watts
.Heart Rate: .140.184.165 .bpm
.Cadence: .58.102.96 .rpm

Peak 1min HR (177 bpm): (effort 4/8)
.Power: .143.491.325 .watts
.Heart Rate: .164.185.177 .bpm
.Cadence: .58.116.108 .rpm

Peak 1min cadence (116 rpm): (effort 1/8)
.Power: .51.379.308 .watts
.Heart Rate: .140.181.165 .bpm
.Cadence: .83.124.116 .rpm

Wednesday:

TSB -7.2, rhr 56, sleep 8, qual ave, felt good.

MTB Night racing. Very hard work. Only had heart rate to go by. 180 on the wide section and about 160 in the singletrack. Crashed three times. Twice on left side. Hurt ribs again.

Was able to push pretty hard all the way but lack of skill in singletrack set me back. Would pass people on the straights but lose them on singletrack.

Man Entry

Entire workout (245 watts):
.Duration: .51:00
.Work: .750 kJ
.TSS: .102.6 (intensity factor 1.099)
.Norm Power:.245

Thursday:

2min effort on tacx fortius as part of Pegasus club development rider evening on devp bike. Very painful.

Entire workout (340 watts):
.Duration: .2:19
.Work: .42 kJ
.TSS: .7.7 (intensity factor 1.525)

Friday:

After setting up new road bike spent 20min on rollers.

Entire workout (164 watts):
.Duration: .25:06 (25:28)
.Work: .245 kJ
.TSS: .22.9 (intensity factor 0.742)
.Norm Power:.165

Saturday:

TSB -6.1, RHR 56, Temp 36.0, Sleep 8, Qual Ok, Felt Ok.

After work started to feel really bad, Diarrhoea by 8pm and vomiting my 11am, lasted all night, bugger all sleep. Must have been a Souvlaki that I had for lunch.

Sunday:

TSB -4.6, RHR 82bpm, Temp 38.0, Sleep 0, Qual Very Bad, Felt Awful.

Felt really bad in morning, didn't eat anything till 10pm. Monitored temp and heart rate all day. Very high. Started feeling better in evening although HR and Temp hadn't come down so had a small bite to eat.

Monday:

TSB -5.1, RHR 56, Temp 36.0, Sleep 6, Qual Ave, Felt Bad.

Temp back down and RHR down to normal levels. Stomach still a bit iffy.

Easy cruise to Sumner and home with a little bit of threshold work.

New bike Fuji Team Pro 54cm. Narrow bars but feels good. Back on 172.5mm cranks.

Entire workout (151 watts):
.Duration: .1:16:52
.Work: .689 kJ
.TSS: .79.2 (intensity factor 0.789)
.Norm Power:.176