You need to give yourself a lot more credit. Your commute is "long" IMHO. I commute 10 miles rt and feel good if I ride all 5 days in a week. You should feel great if you are only able to bike your commute a couple of days a week. 50 miles per week of commuting is pretty good. Three days per week would be great! That averages way over five hours per week of moderate exercise which is probably enough to keep you "healthy".
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 9:01:58 AM UTC-6, Lungimsam wrote: > > Not sure this is on topic enough but as you all seem to "ride" for the > love of it and not "train" (and I don't either), was wondering what you > think about my conundrum. > > I am in good health. I get physicals. Everything always fine. No issues. > 47 years old, 5'8", 170 lbs. I thank God for my wonderful health. > > *Here is the issue:* > > After some light riding in winter, in spring I start the commuting again. > At first I feel fast and energetic, the bikes speeds along nicely. But I > quickly feel like garbage within a few days. Just so tired and draggy. I > take a day or two off the bike, start again, feel like garbage, etc. on and > on all summer, getting a teeny bit fitter, but always feeling slow and > draggy after a few days of consistent riding. I can't seem to get to the > point where I can commute every day without feeling trashed after a few > days. > > *The riding* is all on my Bleriot and Sam drop bar bikes: > Commutes: 34 miles/1950ft. climbing round trip or 1/2 commutes from an > area I park in and ride from. I even get wiped out from the 1/2 commutes. > Indian Restauranteuring once a week: ~15 miles round trip. Maybe a second > trip a week if meeting other family to eat out. Always Asian food of some > kind. > Escorting wife on her bike commute 3-4x/week: 7 Miles round trip, no > climbing. Very slow paced. > Recreational road riding to get ready for centuries consist of one 25-62 > mile ride every week. Maybe ~3,000 feet of climbing max. > > This has been this way for the last two or so years. > > *You guys do a lot of riding and was wondering how you get acclimated to > it.* Do you just ride when you feel like trash anyway and your body gets > used to it eventually? Or do you need time off, too? > > *Food:* > I like eating everything and my wife cooks a lot of Asian food as she is > Chinese. She does health conscious cooking and is fit. I don't do diets of > any kind as I know I could never keep one. Just being honest with myself. > There is no way. > > Anyway. I'm interested in your ideas and experiences with how you get > acclimated to your riding. > I do fine on centuries and I did a flat brevet once. I would like to do > some more Brevets eventually, but I get so trashed just from my regular > riding that I never seem to get strong enough to handle the type of hilly > rides they do in my area. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
