Hi everyone,
this is my first post, so wish me well!
I just got an Avio power meter from the UK and will be using it to train from now on. However, after a lot of hard rides and sportive racing over the past few years, I'm knackered (aged 40). I've felt pretty bad on the bike for about two years now, despite taking off as much as a month at a time to try to recover. Specifically, my quads feel sore after even minimal effort on the bike, in the way that they do at the end of a hard VO2 max interval, for example. (For example, returning to the bike after a month, I felt like I'd already done a 100k ride that morning...)
I assume that I need to take off a lot of time to recover from all the abuse I've given my body on the bike, but I'm wondering if there is any way to determine how long to rest using my power meter. And if there aren't any power meter-specific techniques for this, how does one go about determining how long to rest after (presumably) overtraining?
Any advice would be much appreciated,
Calum
this is my first post, so wish me well!
I just got an Avio power meter from the UK and will be using it to train from now on. However, after a lot of hard rides and sportive racing over the past few years, I'm knackered (aged 40). I've felt pretty bad on the bike for about two years now, despite taking off as much as a month at a time to try to recover. Specifically, my quads feel sore after even minimal effort on the bike, in the way that they do at the end of a hard VO2 max interval, for example. (For example, returning to the bike after a month, I felt like I'd already done a 100k ride that morning...)
I assume that I need to take off a lot of time to recover from all the abuse I've given my body on the bike, but I'm wondering if there is any way to determine how long to rest using my power meter. And if there aren't any power meter-specific techniques for this, how does one go about determining how long to rest after (presumably) overtraining?
Any advice would be much appreciated,
Calum