Lactic-Haze

Last week Wednesday I was feeling very run down and tired, but just wrote it off as feeling the effects of the training. By the end of the day though, something was not right. I cycled home, showered and got in to bed and just slept. Wife came home with the kid and found me asleep, burning with fever. It got worse through the night and once I woke up in the morning we decided to drag me off to the doctor.

Turns out I had a bad case of gastro. Booked off work for two days and given lots of meds. My days were spent sleeping, visiting the loo, sleeping some more, and occasionally drinking something and trying to eat. Monday morning I was still not well and went back to the doctor. He prescribed some different drugs and booked me off for another two days. This time the drugs seemed to do the trick and by Tuesday I was feeling a lot better. Of course my training has been set back quite a bit, but coach said to chill out and recover. I’m allowed a easy ride on Friday morning, then we’re slowly upping the volume as the weekend progresses. Hopefully this didn’t affect my IM prep too much.