SEARCH
Chronic Fatigue Bounce-Back: 8 Days of Recovery ===> Ideal Training Ride + Recovery Followup
Related: anti-oxidant, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, health, training, Vitamin C
re: Epstein Barr Virus and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
re: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
In Chronic Fatigue: the Hard Slap from Working Out a Little Too Much, I discussed how doing a little too much over the course of two days wiped me out the next day, with the subsequent 2-3 days being fatigued. Steady improvement over 8 days and I felt like I was up to a ride today—even yesterday I felt tired by mid afternoon.
Such is the pattern of CFS, at least as I experience. I count myself lucky in being able to bounce back up to some level of physical activity. WAY better than 2020/2021/2022.
Today (after 8 days of no biking) it all worked out with a training ride that given my present fitness can only be described as IDEAL/EXEMPLARY. All things are appropriate for the conditions, the heart rate is what it ought to be in my detrained condition, legs had some vigor in strength (though far inferior to pre-TheEvent), and I finished stronger than I started. Most indicative, it felt good and felt right. The effort weighs on me some hours later (very noticeable), but it is not a feeling of exhaustion; it seems heavy but not overwhelming. That’s a good sign.
Now if I could only do this every day as I used, or at least every other day. Then I could really get back in shape and drop 20 pounds of fat. Tomorrow I’ll just do a 40% ride at an easy pace, assuming I feel OK in the morning.
Below, red is heart rate (bpm), green is power (watts).
Recovery
Taking 5 grams of Lypospheric Vitamin C past 2 days, as well as some powdered Vitamin C. I have the distinct impression that the Lypospheric works, and works way better than the plain stuff. See last year’s experience with high-dose Vitamin C.
Day 1
These results are by my present standards excellent—not wiped out as the prior week’s experience...
The signal for rest was strong: to bed at 10 PM day of (feeling great need for rest), out of bed at 10:30 AM and that’s not being lazy, it’s simply a very strong need for sleep and rest. And I could feel yesterday’s workout through early afternoon. Low-level of activity for 3-4 hours installing drip irrigation worked out well, but meant feeling tired at 5PM. At 9:43 PM I feel pretty good.
Day 2
Woke up 1.5 hours earlier than usual—a good sign. But... I did a ride at low power of ~140W for about an hour at about 3pm. This was too much, and wiped me out for the rest of the day. It shows that stacking workouts needs caution.
Day 3
Did not ride today, took it easy because the need for sleep was high again this AM, and I was forced to nap late afternoon.
