Monday, March 21, 2011

Mar14-20

S: 31,300 yds
B: 9h 5min
R: 3h 13min

Total: 20h 32min

When I went in to see Dr. Krichev a couple of weeks ago for the leg, I had some blood work done, as at the time I had been feeling a bit sluggish (more so than usual...).  As it turned out, I had an abnormally low white blood cell count and testosterone level. This was likely not that big of a deal, as low levels of both are common during periods of heavy training, but just in case Paulo decided we should back off the training load for a couple of weeks and have it checked again. So as a result, last week wasnt too bad, and I even did some pretty fast swimming in the pool.

On a brighter note, spring is here, and riding outside after work is awesome!

3 comments:

The O'Neill's said...

surprised that the "low testosterone level" has not generated any comments ...

Blake Becker said...

I had the same thing amigo... almost 250pts. There was a direct correlation between race performance(especially the bike)/mood and testosterone levels. My numbers were 510 and just under 750...

Andrew said...

510? Thats huge; mine was <200...