Cheating in cycling training can be good.

I was training hard as usual today but I felt off since I woke up, at the gym the feeling didn’t go away and after a couple sets of weight lifting I felt weak and jittery. I decided to cheat on today’s session and left early. Normally I would not do this but I”m starting to listen to my body and be flexible with my schedule. I mean we’re not robots, somedays we would be better off resting and recovering. I’m sure tomorrow I’ll feel great, so it doesn’t bother me to backup on days when you really feel like you should back off.

I could have pushed through it, but I knew the smart thing to do was to call it a day as I would have probably felt even worse the next day if I dug too far into my reserves on a really off day.