Workouts flat?

"cwhitmore" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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I did my first sprint distance triathlon in late May and

then went on a week

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long cruise with my family, got an upper respiratory

infection after the

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trip and took three weeks to recovery. I got my strength

back, but I don't

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feel like I'm 100%. All of my workouts are flat whether

it's a swim, run or

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bike. I had my blood checked about a month ago and

everything looks good. I

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haven't changed my diet so it's not that. I did notice

that my resting HR

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has been around 53. Before May it was 45 if that makes any

difference. Been

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having trouble falling asleep too.
Maybe it's the Texas heat, but even indoor and early

morning workouts are

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flat.
Any suggestions?
Carlton.

No suggestions from here. However I had the beginnings of
pneumonia in January - just I was setting PRs in the swim.
It took me three weeks to fight the cold (and no working
out) and then it took me another three weeks to get to where
I was before I started my swim focus. You guessed it, three
weeks after that I was finally back to my "PR" speeds.
(Total of 9 weeks from the time I caught my cold)

It would be nice to have instant recovery from a major cold,
but it just doesn't work that way. The best thing to do IMO
is to realize where you ARE not where you've been - and then
train forward.

-CF

(See my earlier post "Pneumonia sucks ass"😉