Originally Posted by
Grouperdawg
yes not on the bike, I wiped out trying to run a ball down tennis. It was ugly.
Thought so.
Do you see the pattern of behavior yet? Your doctors are backing off because they know you aren't listening. You will listen when you bring them something big and expensive and nothing they can do until then.
Training gains are consolidated with rest and recovery. You have absolute zero notion of rest and recovery.
At age 50 the schedule of intervals you can effectively absorb is not much. Intervals will still be effective done properly. No intervals at all until the pain is well in the rearview. Which is always the case.
You are chronically overtrained. A young guy could continue riding at 95% (being very cautious not to overdo it) and be done with overtraining in a month. Or six weeks. At 50 allowing yourself to get overtrained is a big mistake. it will be hard to even tell when compensation and healing has happened. It won't be soon. Mostly you are just speeding up the aging process.
It is not all over at 50. Not even close. If you continue to behave like a teenager you are going on the injury list. If injury is the only way to slow you down injury will come.