Towards the end of big training blocks, there typically comes a time when training fatigue sets in.  There comes a day when you are just flat and tired, during your workouts. Today was that day for me.

I rode my bike outside for an hour and a half this morning.  The ride went quite well, but when pushing any decent amount of power, I could feel that my legs were just tired.  Not so tired that I couldn’t complete the intended workout, but tired enough for me to notice for the whole ride.

This afternoon, the situation on my 35 minute, Zone 2 run, was even more pronounced.  My legs were feeling tired before I even started to run.  It would have been easy for me to not run. Experience told me however, that I would be OK.  That turned out to be true.  My legs felt terrible at the beginning of the run, but much better at the end.

Training fatigue is a perfectly normal phenomenon.  In fact, for me, it is a good sign that I have worked hard and likely made some significant gains during a particular block of training.

The key now, is to manage the fatigue for the rest of this week, before I begin my taper for Oceanside.  That is when I will really begin to unload the fatigue.  For now, I just have a few more hard workouts to get through.