I have reached a major plateau in my fitness. My short term goal is to increase my leg strength and power ahead of cyclocross racing season but after the last 3 weeks I have noticed significant loss in my leg muscle and my power has decreased to match. Perhaps I have logged too much volume for too long and my diet has not been able to keep up with my energy requirements. I feel like I'm trained to handle the volume, but I need to increase my consumption to match.
I'm definitely frustrated by my shrinking weak legs. I have been doing strength specific workouts including high gear power starts and weight lifting but the results have been opposite of my goals: estimated 25% decrease in size and power. I don't have any data to back that up, just my best guess but not the profess I wanted. I have been eating a lot of health made from scratch food and nearly no junk food/fast food/soda and obviously I'm falling short on my consumption. Time to use My Fittnes Pal to try and get an understanding of my consumption.
I have taken the plunge and bought running shoes followed by my first running workout in probably 8 years. I ran a 5k in about 30 minutes. It was brutal! My legs need to toughen up a lot to haddle the riggers of running but over the past 2 years I have noticed one thing in common with the most powerful and dominate cyclist I have met and that is, they run. My main motivation is to become efficient for running sections in cyclocross races.
I have much to learn. How do you bring water on a run? The sloshing of s bottle in hand is not ideal.
I have a Nathan bottle belt, comes with 2 smaller bottles, about 9OZ each, that fit snug in their holders, two small pockets for keys, gel maybe phone and some $, not too bulky, smaller bottles are not as heavy and don't slosh around, possible to add one or two extra bottle's and holders onto the belt, but two usually is fine for me, and if I am running in town I might be able to re-fill at a park bathroom, or water fountain .
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