Rest is good.

I over trained.
Simply put, I put more stress on my system than the amount of rest and nutrition can make up for. I use a system to calculate the total workload I put on my system; by multiplying the minutes exercised times the heart rate zone.
I.E.
Zone 1 = 15.75 minutes = 15.75 workload
Zone 2 = 73.75 minutes = 147.50 workload
Since everyone has different heart rate zones, this system has a certain reliability to it.
By adding up the total workload for the week, you can have a number to assign to the training you've done. Typically, though I calculate the workload, I don't spend much time looking at the progression of those numbers. Looking back at them, I can correlate those workload numbers to how tired I am. Below is a breakdown of the workload (cycling only) of my training since the first of January:
Week 1 -85
Week 2 -159
Week 3 -175.8
Week 4 -150.55
Week 5 - 465.25
Week 6 -143
Week 7 -692.9
Week 8 -206
Week 9 -345.5
Week 10 -143
Week 11 -693.4
Rather inconsistent, if I do say so myself.
Back to over training. The last few workouts of Week 11, last week, I was unable to get my heart rate up as I had in previous trainings. General disinterest in turning the cranks over. I'd pushed too hard, and I knew it. With that in mind, I skipped my strength training on Monday and the scheduled hour of cycling training on Tuesday.
The result?
For a similar ride, I rode two miles farther, with a average speed of one mph faster.

Rest is good.
Rest in important.
MtM

Hypoxian's Are Crazy (a parody)

Hypoxian's Are Crazy
Adapted from Faries Wear Boots by Black Sabbath

Goin home, late last night
Riding up, that steep incline
Suddenly I got a fright
Suddenly I saw a sight
Yeah I looked through the window
Yeah, I looked up the road
and surprised what I saw
Terrified what I saw
Hypoxians riding in a pack,
A lion waving to me with his paw.

All right now!
On the Bike! Now!

Hypoxians are nuts and you gotta believe me
There's Lions in Boulder, you gotta believe me
Yeah I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies
Yeah I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies
Hypoxians are nuts and you gotta believe me
There's Lions in Boulder, you gotta believe me
I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes,
I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes,

Well all right now!
Off the Bike! Now!

So I went to the doctor
So I went back to Zen-ster
See what he could give me
To see what he would say
He said son, son, you've gone too far.
He said man, man, you've gone to far.
Cause slacking and working is all that you do.
cause riding with too much O2 is what you do...
Yeaahhhhh!!!!


(Lion reference - might need some explainations, and I'm STILL working on that write up.)