Havent been able to get any good workouts in the last 2 or 3 weeks. My hip and leg has been acting up again (between PT appointments...). Had to turn around in my clubs first road race of the year this past Sundaty because my leg started hurting. Leg was feeling better so I was able to ride hard on tuesday for a little bit, and got a good workout in yesterday (3x10 30/30s ~300 watts on) and had PT tonight. Everything should be good now, and now im seriously considering racing on Saturday.

It might suck, but effing bikes.

Keep the faith.

Feelin not-too-sore last night so hit the sack early and got up for 3.5 hours before work, including the fast group ride. That hurt. So fatigued I only took one pull, after a car split the group. Rest tomorrow, and who knows what the weekend holds. Supposed to go to AZ for a wedding, but sister in law and her husband are visiting so Idk.

Took a couple of KOMs off a dude who rides for Lupus last night. Guy who won the GMSR last year. Rolling climb on brutal, rocky western VA singletrack. Rowdy descent filled with square edged rocks. Plenty of rim contact last night. Praise be to Allah/Vishnu/Yahweh for my Enve rims.

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This training week has been garbage. Just really struggling with balancing the bump in intensity. Though it hasn't been that bad, so I don't really know why I'm having a hard time. Resting super hard today, resetting for the weekend.

Sometimes you just get caught out, it happens to me sometimes the first week back on after rest. I'm sure your legs will come around.

I decided that I am racing tomorrow. It will suck, but im anxious to race bikes again. Im looking forward to racing the caad12.

I'm doing 5hrs with 40-45min of vo2 within 90min after a decent warmup. This is one of those days you delay heading out for as long as possible because you know how bad it's going to feel.

Windy River Ride. 176tss.

Missed meeting up with the group ride thinking I was early. Waited 6 minutes, chased, took a shortcut and just missed them at the spot I was aiming for. Joined up at the turnaround. Took off for 7 minutes at 115% off the front, caught before the main homestretch sprint. Sat out the other 2 sprints.

2 hours, 150 TSS

Was sick the week before this for 5 days, just started feeling better in time for TBC 18-20th, then another couple days of decent training in the desert. Day off, easy day, then back to training in earnest today.

Yesterday I wasn't recovered from Wednesday's workout, so while I was able to hit zone in prescribed dosage, I was using a lot of the smaller muscles to fake my way through it, and today everything sucks and I hate everything that is not coffee.

Today is 3hrs with 10x30AWC /2min recoveries. I'm 100% positive I'm going to crack doing these.

my Quarq broke today and I set a new 20-minute power record of 5000w. My garmin gave me a new estimate of my VO2, improving from 60 to 61.

silver lining to the wet/cold/expensive ride.

yesterday: 6*5' vo2 hill repeats then 2*20' high tempo
today: easy hour

Had that thing where you race one day, feel like junk, ride the next day and feel pretty good. That was Saturday-->Sunday. Hard to be sure my legs were so great though, since Sunday was 1:43 of Z2, no hard stuff. Today: recovery commute in the pouring rain. Getting a little tired of the rainy commutes.

I didn't crack yesterday, so I've got that going for me, which is nice. The NP that AWC generates is hilarious, it's like playing one of the expert songs on Guitar Hero and believing you can do the same thing with a real guitar.

Saturday road race.. got a flat 4 miles to finish..hard to watch the pack go but oh well.
Today easy
Tomorrow 20x2 at 90%

Help?

Raced last Saturday (9 days ago), felt great. Left the next day for a week's vacation with the family, totally off the bike.

While on vacation we went on a very easy but steep hike, and while descending my quads cramped up badly. It's happened to me before when walking downhill, no big deal. I hobbled down the path backwards.

Legs felt fine the next day and didn't really bother me for the rest of the vacation. I did 2 short (15 minute) steep uphill runs and everything was fine.

Got back late last night. Went for a ride today and within 10 minutes my quads cramped to the point where I couldn't turn the pedals over. This was zone 1 super easy spinning, nothing remotely resembling an effort. It took me an hour to ride about 2 miles back home. Just excruciating pain, like close to throwing up levels, so much pain that I couldn't think straight.

Took a couple of Aleve and a hot bath and I can at least move around now, but my legs feel like somebody beat them with a pipe. It's not a metaphor, they feel exactly like they were physically beaten. The pain is in both quads but different specific muscles. The affected muscles are very sore to the touch but don't feel knotted up or any different from the not-affected muscles, to the touch. No visible bruising or anything.

The same thing happened to me 3 months ago, on the first ride back after a week off. I remember that it was similarly different muscles on the left and right leg, in fact that time the calf muscles were involved too. At that time I took 3 days off the bike, did a hard ride on the 4th day and it was fine.

That makes it a pattern: first ride back after a week off, very bad bilateral leg cramps that don't seem to be related to any actual specific muscle effort (in other words not a muscle pull or anything injury related).

I have no idea what's going on but I don't like it at all. Google has nothing to offer. I've got an appointment with a good sports PT on Weds, I hope he can help. Anybody here ever experienced anything like this?

Are you taking any supplements?

No, nothing.

No work for me today, one of the benefits of working for a catholic organization is that Easter Monday is also observed. I rode my bike to the lake (which is starting to look like a puddle due to the low water level). It was a peaceful and windy 50 miles/5000 feet ride :)
My Garmin doesn't download to the computer anymore. It fell off my bike at a race last week and seems to be working otherwise. I can upload to garmin connect via bluetooth on my phone but it win't upload via USB?

I have had good luck with magnesium to prevent cramps. I'd ask your PT about that.

Never had this personally happen but I had a triathlon training partner who suffered really badly with calf cramps and the pain would last for weeks. He started going to a chiro who did ART (active release therapy) to get his muscles worked on/released and also added a potassium and magnesium supplement. Good luck!

Geez, those are wild symptoms. I hope you figure this out soon GC.

I may swap tomorrow's workout, pending weather tomorrow morning. We'll see.