What's up doc ? Nothing.... go have an XRay

Went to the doc's on Friday morning to have another checkup, which I knew he would not find anything from listening to my chest and testing my blood pressure. "What do you want me to do ?" he then asked, which sort of summed things up so far. So he sent me for a chest xray to see if anything will show up on that, in the interim I had an idea.... maybe not a good one or one that may be recomended. Off I trundled to the hospital to get an XRay and then be told it may be 2 weeks before I hear anything, unless I have something that stands out.

Given that when you have an infection your body heats up in the process of killing off the invader, not necessarily though increased workload but to make the host less inhabitable and kill off whatever has invaded. So my theory was to turn the fan off (or point it away so at least there is a little air circulation), ride indoors and sweat it out.




Friday nights session was just over an hour long with an IF of 0.87 and TSS of 79.7 but a new 60s personal record (previous was 512W the previous weekend during the club run). During the session I thought that I'd give the 60 second power interval a go, see how my heart reacts and try and help convince myself I'm not mad (or am).



So, 39min into the ride upped the gears and gave it all. After 40 seconds I had to change down as my HR increased and finished the 60 seconds at 186bpm on the polar but only 184bpm on the ergomo with a power average of 603W. The first 40 seconds was 638W followed by the next 20 at 547W. So, that answered one question.

Todays session was a bit longer with one sprint to see what my 5s was 1h 48m into the ride a single sprint topped out at 1156W with a 1078W average. I forgot to tighten the forks into the steering frame and almost ended up on the floor when they nearly jumped out a few times. Total ride was 1h 50m long with TSS of 120, IF 0.81, avg power 240W, norm power 267W.

Before the ride I weighed my self (76.4kg), after (75.7kg) and also measured out the water and food at around 1.2 litres with another 120g of food/gell. This equated to a sweat loss of around 2 litres in the space of 2 hours between readings or 1 litre per hour. I estimate that my peak sweat loss during one part in the session was at a rate of around 1.4 lires / hour.

With the 2 sweat sessions it may be working.....