... I've been feeling something like this since Sunday. Today, however, I'm feeling better again and I'm in a surprisingly good mood again.
Yesterday I had elephant calves that were twice as thick as usual. Thanks to the massages from my top physiotherapist Stephan, they are now gazelle-like again 🙂 My jersey tattoo will probably last until next summer, although I even had sunscreen on it on Sunday. I'm also hungry like a bear waking from its hibernation. I could eat all day, strangely enough, I only crave unhealthy things.
These days you just have to listen to your body and give it what it wants, so gummy bears, kebab and beer ... maybe not in this combination 😉
last taper week before Roth
I have not logged the training of the last week, it was more like a light movement therapy. The last key session was on the Tuesday before the race. Thirty minutes of full throttle on the bike and then a maximum of 15 minutes of running. Beginners should be careful here, however, as the resulting sore muscles may even last until race day, and that is of course not the point of the exercise.
The unit serves to flush out the last glycose reserves and also as a muscle stimulus so that the shape does not sag too much. Then eat mainly protein for two days so that the body is stressed into a kind of glycogen deficiency. Be careful, you can feel flat and tired. "He" is so shocked that if you mainly only eat carbohydrates from Thursday evening until race day, this time he stores even more glycogen than before. Only for the reason that "he" is afraid that such a deficiency will soon occur again, because he LOVES carbohydrates for energy supply !! 😉 For this reason, the so-called "Saltins Diet" also increases the body's performance reserves for the day of the race, it is longer in a position to provide energy from its own stores.
After the unit on Tuesday, I also bring the muscle tone out of the body (sauna, massage, stretching) so that the muscles can completely recover. From Thursday afternoon, however, you have to build up your muscle tone again (short sprints, small training units with short competition loads and cold), because otherwise you will not be 100% ready to perform on the day of the competition.
Altogether it was probably 6-7 hours of training in the taper week.
rest well!
krelli