How stupid....

Sunday night, reading on the net, trying to find out what is wrong with me prior to asking the doctor to perform a TB test on Monday. Stumbled across an article with a fed entries from people with long term cough's, etc. The solution they perscribed was an ABC vitamin dose, which reading through the articles seemed to make some sort of sense and fit in with my pattern over the last 6 months. So, back in the house, popped a couple of one a day multi-vitamins with codliver oil in. 30 minutes later my throat started to clear up a bit, so as I seemed not to have much to loose at this point I took another one. By this point I had taken 300% of the RDA in A,B,C,D and E with B1, B2, B6 and B12 covered.

Monday morning I was a bit stunned as my throat was clear and my chest was almost fully clear... Bad diet and the lack of vitamins cost me 4 months of activity, not taking into account the implications for the previous year and how I was feeling on and off.

Anyway, Tuesday night, feeling ok, back on the bike. Tried upping the wattage for a bit and see how it felt.

Not too bad, although I was feeling that I should not be pushing it too much.

Wednesday night, back on it again.

Ended up being a shorter session, although at a higher intensity, which provided me with a guage as to how much I had dropped back over the last 4 months of on-off not quite training activity. Seems to have been a loss of somewhere between 20W and 40W.

Thursday night I was barred from going on the bike as my parents and grandmother were visiting, after all it was my grans 85th on Friday so I could hardly be unsociable.

Friday, birthday meal down at the local, the consmption of some wine and of course far too much food.

Saturday was again the consumption of far too much food, however I did manage to get another session in, with my dad watching and chatting for the first hour and a bit. The HR and power picked up towards the end of the 25 mile distance point, which my dad had a bit of a laugh about and found quite interesting.

This was also the first session that my HR had been above 170 in the last 4 months and was again interesting as my hour wattage seemed to be around 290-300 mark based on how the period around the hour mark went. Was hoping to do a couple of hours, although I think the burn in the middle had a bit more of an impact.