Pah. Pah I say. I’ve felt fine all day. And I felt fine enough during my ride. But now, as I sit here writing this… And actually fairly shortly after my ride finished, my lungs have been hurting again.
Did I push myself too hard? It certainly didn’t feel like it during the ride. If anything, I felt I could have upped the tempo a bit more. It felt nice to have a touch of resistance to push against, rather than just spinning away on easy mode for yet another hour.
The idea with this ride was to do 20 minutes at my usual 114w, and then all being well (and they felt fine enough all day) I’d ramp up to 150w for 20 minutes, before ramping down for the final 10 minutes. Each ramp up and down would last 5 minutes. This provided a small variation in this one over my past two weeks. And very welcome it was, too.
I’m going to wait and see how I feel in the morning before I decide if I repeat this workout any time soon. Right now the U – shaped burning sensation is back around the lungs so that kinda sucks. I’ve only just said in the recent weekly review post that I’m keeping things light to purposely avoid doing more damage by exercising. Maybe this was pushing too hard. It’s really complicated because during the activity it felt fine.
I’ll be honest, and you may well have guessed already, but I’m so frustrated with this situation. It is what it is, but it doesn’t mean I don’t crave the old routine. I doubt that craving will subside till I can smash myself once again, at which point I’ll likely be wondering what the hell I was thinking wishing for that.
