Trends HRV down, RHR Up. Garmin strained

Small update.

Took week off more or less. Felt fairly decent on return. Did an impromptu event which pushed my load up higher than planned first week back. Backed off again last week a bit to compensate.

Felt pretty strong in first threshold session in a while today so added an ftp test on the end and seems I’m still where I was so hopefully that’s a decent sign.

Gained over a kg in the rest prriod. Felt really hungry so just went with it.

Will be working on taking more rest weeks or much lighter rest weeks from here on.


How to tell you’ve just done the longest, hardest ride of your life - pushed literally to my limits!

100 mile gravel. 9h30 moving time.
HRV dropped to 25 after. Lowest since started recording. But I didn’t need that number to tell me I suffered!


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