Thursday Aug 31 |
 | Road Bike 53:00 [2] | |
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| Home-Limberg-Forch-home. Took it very easy, was tired and unconcentrated, too many other thoughts. Got a light cramp in both calves at the end of the hill, no idea why. |
Wednesday Aug 30 |
| Strength 30:00 [1] | |
| weight:63.5kg (injured) (sick) |
| My last strength training must have been long ago. Was I weak... . Weight without shoes. |
Tuesday Aug 29 |
| Note | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| 1h "stretch & relax", an ASVZ lesson. Not bad but my back was even more blocked afterwards. |
Saturday Aug 26 |
| Road Bike 2:45:00 [2] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Team CSC ride with Stone. We rode a nice loop to the Rhein and back to Zürich, both ways climbing the Regensberg. Got into rain on the way back, must be 10 years ago when I got into rain while road cycling. |
Friday Aug 25 |
| Road Bike 1:40:00 [2] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Ride with Babsi on my new "homecourse" (Limberg, Egg. Pfannenstiel). We continued to climb after Pfannenstiel and rode via Forch towards Zurich. Babsi made a very strong impression on the bike. |
| Note | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Acupuncture treatment for my legs and back. |
Thursday Aug 24 |
| Running 56:00 [2] 12 km (4:40 / km) +10m 4:39 / km | |
| (injured) (sick) shoes: Adidas Supernova Cushion yello |
| Lunch run to Rappi with Ivo and Pius. Felt dizzy and uncomfortable as soon as I started running, not a pleasure. |
Wednesday Aug 23 |
| Road Bike 1:20:00 [2] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| The same ride as last week; Limberg (11:06), Egg, Pfannenstiel. It's amazing how easily I can climb while standing on the pedals. I was not able to do so in recent years. |
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| C • nice 1 |
Monday Aug 21 |
| Strength (Yoga) 1:00:00 [1] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| My first Yoga class. It was ok but not outstanding. I expected more strength and flexibility exercices but I felt pretty relaxed afterwards. |
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| C • so manly! 1 |
Sunday Aug 20 |
| Note | |
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| Wellness weekend in Tirol. |
Thursday Aug 17 |
| Road Bike 1:30:00 [2] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Easy road bike ride on a new course: home-Küsnacht-Limberg-Forch-Egg-Pfannenstiel-Erlenbach-home. Was a very nice evening, breathtaking view from Pfannenstiel on Zürichsee.
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Wednesday Aug 16 |
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| Event: Grand Prix Slovakia
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Tuesday Aug 15 |
| Note | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Wanted to go to my first Yoga class but had to postpone it to next Monday. |
| Running 59:00 [1] 11.5 km (5:08 / km) | |
| (injured) (sick) shoes: Adidas Supernova Cushion yello |
| Lunch run with Bösch, very easy pace. Felt very bad after the run. |
Sunday Aug 13 |
| Road Bike 1:00:00 [2] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Home-Küsnacht-2x Limberg climb (11:35, 10:19) -home. Was lucky not to get into rain. |
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| C • intervals 2 |
Thursday Aug 10 |
| Road Bike 2:13:00 [2] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Nice evening ride with Stone: Kreuzplatz-Küsnacht-Limberg-Maur-Uster-Egg-Forch-Meilen-Kreuzplatz. The right calve cramped slightly on the last climb, not used anymore to such long trainings... |
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| C • stronger than ever 1 |
Wednesday Aug 9 |
| Road Bike 54:00 [2] | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| Home-Küsnacht-Limberg-Erlenbach-home. Took it very easy on the climb. Was thinkimg about how i could pimp my road bike. Need definitively lighter wheels. Maybe even a new crankset with 50/35. |
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| C • proll! 3 |
Sunday Aug 6 |
| Road Bike 1:00:00 [2] | |
| slept:12.0 (injured) (sick) |
| Felt bad for the whole day but just want to go out a bit so did the Küsnacht-Forch-ZH loop. Rode a different climb which was in some parts very steep, puhhh. Also ended up in Limberg. Who says that there are no good cycling hills around Zurich??!
Ankle feels quite fine.
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Saturday Aug 5 |
| Road Bike 40:00 [5] | |
| weight:62.5kg (injured) (sick) |
| I actually wanted to take part on a ETHZ study which examines the influence of green tea on body's fat burning ability but at the end I was not allowed due to my thyroxin issue. Anyway, I could still do the VO2max test for free (which ususally costs CHF 300.-).
The test protocol was as follows: 5min warm-up@ 90 Watt, start with 95 W, an increase of 35W every 3 minutes. I had to cease in the middle of the 340W level, so a maximum of 5.5W/kg weight. As a comparison; Amstrong's maximum VO2max performance is 600 Watt, or 8.5 Watt/kg. he can maintain 6.8W/kg for 20min. So I only have about 65% of Lance's power. But clean... ;-)
Comparison 2; the performance of Floyd Landis when he attacked on that "epic" stage:
"Attacking about a quarter of the way up the Col des Saisies for 30 seconds at 544 watts, which settled into a 5-minute peak of 451 watts, which continued for 10 minutes at an average of power of 431 watts, and left everyone in his dust after 30 minutes at an average power of 401 watts."
Michele Ferrari, also known as "Dottore EPO", said that the magic number for Tour contenders is 6.7 Watts per kilogram of body weight on the lactate treshold.
I will get the detailed tests results later on but the VO2max was around 58ml/min/kg. I'm a bit disappointed with this figure but it just reflects my current (poor) condition. Apparently, the VO2max values are lower on cycling ergometers than on treadmills.
While searching the web for articles on VO2max, I found this interesting quote:
"Miguel Indurain's VO2 max, according to a widespread rumor, was 95 milliliters per kilogram of body weight per
minute, a level so high it is unheard of. The real number was 78, Dr. Coyle said, but researchers who tested Mr. Indurain were reluctant to put the
true figure in their paper for fear of demolishing the Indurain myth."
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| C • worthless 3 |
Friday Aug 4 |
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| Event: Cerkno Cup 2006
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| Note | |
| (injured) (sick) |
| had an appointment with the doctor to discuss my new blood test. Hmmm, this visit has only further strenghtend my bad perception of doctors...
The outcoome was that the doctor hasn't seen any irrgularities and has no idea on what I suffer. Her attempts were like the following: "You are very tall and thin and have a very low rest HR, hence your brain doesn't get so much blood what might cause your tiredness and dizzyness." "You should do more training for your upper body in order to increase the blood circulation in the upper body."
No comment.
However, I think that there are some irregularities: for example, my haematocrit level has dropped from 42 (3 weeks ago) to now 39.9% even though I have spent 7 days in high altitude. my normal level is around 44-45%
What the doctor said to that: "Your level is only 0.1% below the range, so nothing to worry about". But i'm not an averaged trained person and 2nd have spent some considerable time on altitude...
My ferrum level is still very low, also the haemoglobin, just a bit everything what relates to blood and blood production.
The 2nd striking thing is my too high Cortisol level, the doctor hasn't actually realized it, but that was exactly sth my other doctor was pressuming.
Fact is that I'm definitively not fine, nevertheless, i have currently no idea what I should do in a next step. Maybe just wait and pray.
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| Note | |
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| Was also visiting the accupuncture therapist. The therapist suspects that my engine is empty and therefore I always feel bad. Will do a body check next week to see if all organs are working properly. |
Thursday Aug 3 |
| Running 42:00 [3] 8.5 mi (4:56 / mi) +250m 2:49 / km | |
| (injured) (sick) shoes: Adidas Supernova Cushion yello |
| Running up to Forch, 2 short loops and down. Felt very dizzy at the end. |
Tuesday Aug 1 |
| Running 1:14:00 [2] 14 km (5:17 / km) +300m 4:46 / km | |
| (injured) (sick) shoes: Nike Trailshoe black |
| The intention was to go for a longer bike ride but it rained several times during the day so I went for a run with mum and dad in Buechberg. Don't remember when I was in Buechberg for the last time. I was surprised about my parent's shape, really good! I felt bad towards the end of the run, dizzy and tired. |