093: Overtraining Part 1: What It Actually Is

Shoot yourself

at the end.

No.

I under fueled I felt oh really so on the day because I was so worried about I got like um remember after Melbourne I had to go to hospital because of like my stomach issues oh

yeah like

preface to people who don't know um much about my situation is about 10 years ago I had like this stomach surgery from an exploded appendix when I was overseas long story short I had to get like 30 staples down my stomach fully cut open and um Since then, I've been able to digest food well.

I've got no issues with that and no issues with carbs or anything like that.

But if I overfuel a bit, what can happen is my intestine can get stuck to my adhesion, like the scar tissue wall, and that can be a serious problem.

Then if your gut gets tangled and blood's not moving around, that can cause other problems like a permeated bowel or whatever like that.

And that's exactly what happened in Melbourne.

I had to go to hospital after and I had to put this tube down my nose and the pressure and all that shit.

I don't even know how it works, but yeah.

So I just get very conscious of how much carbs I'm taking on.

I don't think it's the carbs.

I think it was the bicarb soda plus the Red Bull I had before on top of the carbs that my stomach had just like, was like this sludge.

You think it's like a, Because it's the intestine, so it's kind of after the stomach, right? Yeah, yeah.

Maybe it's just like too much.

Too much in there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was all backed up, exactly.

So Brisbane earlier this year, I raced and I fueled, but I don't carb load anymore for a high rock because I'm training less and we've said on the podcast before.

So I just eat my normal calories that I'll eat and normally that's enough to... top up my glycation I'll probably have like a little bit more on the day and before but not like over not like fucking calculating it ATC this Sydney one because I was like with my I'd been with my athletes every day before the race so I was walking like 15 to 20,000 steps a day before my race

it's quite draining dude and like

being in the atmosphere pumped up like I was exhausted at the end of every day before my race because I was like supporting them I'd have like four races a day I'd watch right and I between every race I'd go outside sit in the sun and just like lay down and then I'd go meet the next my next athlete and chat to them and get them prepared and it's it's it is fucking draining but I I got to the start line of my race and I'd realized fuck I haven't eaten too much today and what triggered that was my stomach started rumbling and I was like and I had two gels in my pocket and I was like all right what I can do now because I normally take two in a race I didn't bring my third gel had two I was like, I could either take one of my gels right now at the start line or I can see how I feel after the sled pull and that could be like a make it or break it situation.

I reckon luckily for me, because the sled's moved very, very nicely on the day and we'll get into a bit of that.