On Thursday and Friday of last week, I was seeing elevated heart rates, and I felt terrible during my steady state sessions.  On Saturday, I busted out a season best 6K.  On Sunday I had a nice rest day.

Then today, it was back to more steady state.  I sit down, and 190W watts feels easy, and I cruise through the first 20 minutes with very low perceived exertion and a nice low HR.  I struggled with getting a good sample for a lactate test.  My first prick didn’t yield, so I did a second, and with the xtra time and fumbling around, who knows if it was a good test or not.  But the reading was 2.5mmol/l.  Whaaat?

So, I did another 20 minutes at 190W and tested again.  Good sample this time and I read 2.4mmol/l.  Arghhh.  I still felt mighty fresh and my HR was still nice and low, so I did the next 2 pieces at 190W.   I have to say that I am mightily confused about why my lactates were so high today.

I will drop back to 185W tomorrow to see what happens.