30 days fail

Saturday BIKE! 20.7 miles around Fo Pa and Wydown, in 1:23
  and COMMUTE 9.2 miles
Sunday COMMUTE 9.2 miles

I'm just now (on Tuesday) calling up the Garmin file on this Saturday ride, and I see the Training Effect is "5.0 Overreaching". I'm not sure what that means. I can take a guess. Garmin says "This activity was very demanding. While it can significantly improve your cardiorespiratory fitness, it can become harmful without enough recovery time and should be done sparingly."

Sparingly. Fuck off.

The ave HR was 157, ok that's a bit high but it's also the wrist reading so I'm not fully trusting it. It was a great ride, maybe the last warm t-shirt level weekend of the season. I wore my beloved Rapha jacket but no bike shorts, a bit of chafing from that. Worth it.

Sparingly. WTF?

Anyway, Friday night I went to return the key fob to the gym I almost joined in Soulard, but the 6pm class was a nothing no-show not even the lights on. Dammit. Off to make something of this, I decide to get some of the groceries. Stopped at Jay's and got the tofu and tahini I thought I'd try. Aldi's got good on my list but picked up rice cakes for the tahini.

Naturally this all made me sick to my stomach. Worse yet, M threw out the rice cakes before going to bed, knowing if I ate more the next day it would just continue. I tried more tahini in the morning and spent the rest of the day sick. Pressure in my throat, like my stomach pushing up my esophagus, nauseated, not hungry. I do the bike ride at 330pm on just a clementine orange. Still feeling sick I try to eat some dinner. Of course I had to have some tahini, part of me figures if I'm already sick what's the difference? Ugh.

Sunday morning my hips hurt! The soft tissues took a beating from the ride. I'd hoped to ride again today but that's a bad idea. More tahini, as I'm still sick. I throw the rest of it away. Sick the rest of the day as I cleared the yard and enjoyed the 65F weather. Didn't enjoy how my stomach felt.

More errands and I thought about some walnuts, ginger, and dark chocolate as stir-ins for my yogurt. Take a guess how this went. Not good. Fucking M. Sunday night was a total loss of stomach happiness.

Monday a cold front was coming in, the temps expected to be 15F overnight with 1-2" of snow. All day Monday sick, at lunch time I nearly threw up. Drive home nibbled M some macadamia nuts, those were OK. And dinner was almost OK.

I gotta get back on track.