Thursday, February 15th

This morning's trainer ride was ugly and I am left feeling less-than-confident. The plan was to ride 6 x 2:30 at 310-320 watts on 3 minute recos then to ride 15 minutes at 210-220 then to run 2 miles.

I woke up feeling very dehydrated (likely from travel) and a little feverish. I hopped on and gave myself a five minute warm up and then when into my first interval. WOW it was hard to push the gears this morning. My legs were on_fire and I found myself really laboring to sping the crank arms at the perscribed wattage. By the end of the 2:30 my heart rate had skyrocketed to 169. Good I thought, that's the point of the workout. But I also felt like I was overexerting myself. Maybe that was the point too.

Second interval...holy shit. I could hardly breathe for the last 45 seconds. I felt as close to drowning as I ever want to feel.

Third interval...ok I can't go on at this level. I was able to keep at 300 watts for 1:35 or so and then I decided to back off. I decided 290-300 was a better level. When I tried to spin back up, I had nothing. Nothing.

Fearing a lot of different things, I decided to back out of the workout all together and will hydrate all day in prep for tonight's swim, which I hope goes well.

Awful.