{"id":535,"date":"2012-07-06T21:50:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T21:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cycling.williams.edu\/?p=535"},"modified":"2021-02-01T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:56:50","slug":"sweet-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/uncategorized\/sweet-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you have too much of a good thing? Right now, I would say, emphatically, yes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ve spent a huge amount of this summer riding, maybe about 20-25 hours per week. It’s a fair amount in isolation, but combined with a day job that involves hiking, sawing, lifting, and breaking, it’s a huge amount of physical activity. At first, my hubris won out and I convinced myself that I was pretty good, and I could handle the high temperatures, the long days, and the the weekend races.<\/p>\n

Well, not anymore.<\/p>\n

Something happened to me this week that’s never happened before. In the middle of a hard workout in near 100 degree temps, I had a sudden realization that has– honestly– never happened to me before during a ride.<\/p>\n

You know what? I really don’t want to do this right now. I really, really, really do not want to be on my bike. <\/em><\/p>\n

The following day I tried to go for an easy spin and couldn’t even do that. My legs felt hollow. My body felt weak. But, scariest of all, I just didn’t want to be on my bike. Not even a little. Even the beautiful Mission Peninsula didn’t inspire me.<\/p>\n

I think this is something more than overtraining. I think this is a case of too much of a good thing. Too much time on the saddle; too much focusing on where to, how long, how fast; too much poring over the minutiae of training data.<\/p>\n

What I’m most excited for next year, when I’ll be coaching y’all, isn’t really training per se<\/em>. Rather, I’m most excited to just spend time with a group of people who are as stoked as I am for getting out on the road. Excitement is contagious. I might be helping you all out when it comes to designing workouts, but you’ll be reminding me every day of why I love this sport so much.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m going to spend a few days off the bike and on the mend. Life’s too short to spend your days doing stuff that you don’t love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you have too much of a good thing? Right now, I would say, emphatically, yes. I’ve spent a huge amount of this summer riding, maybe about 20-25 hours per week. It’s a fair amount in isolation, but combined with a day job that involves hiking, sawing, lifting, and breaking, it’s a huge amount of Read more about Sweet Poison<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cycling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}