Originally Posted by
feethanddooth
started a new job 2 weeks ago with the county public works department. before then i was riding 75-150 miles a week depending on weather mostly. since starting i have ridden 0 miles. ive dropped weight so im not very worried about getting too out of shape. but i now with out working my legs they will, and already have, start losing strength.
anyone here work in a physical labor job and still put in their normal miles? whats your plan? how do you get around the exhaustion?
Give it some time to acclimatize. I'm an arborist by trade, spending long days doing heavy lifting, climbing, lugging around a chainsaw through canopies. Lots of vertical feet everyday climbing up ropes
I have no problem now doing my weeks work, even commuting 30-60km to and from work, doing a 600km audax ride on the weekend then back in the trees Monday.