Overtraining

My friend wrote to me yesterday: "looks you are doing good there in America". To tell you the truth, I believe I can make it look good. In real life everyday is about strugling with practicing too much. My legs have been in pain for an year. My rest heart rate is beating (literally beating) 15 beats to high. Last night I slept 2 hours, cos heart was keeping me awake. It's kind a looks good :)

Few years back, I used to wonder how some people can be so stupid that they train themselves over. Or when that happens why they don't take rest to get it fixed! Well, we learn from life. Like always..

Let's begin with that you overtrain really easily. Some people thinks that you need to be super athletic to overtrain yourself. No, you just need to train more than your body can take. Not rest enough in between.

If your basics are not good enough, overtraining is easy as pie. Right now I have basic endurance perioid on. So my schedule is filled with endurance practices. But I can not skip racing while I'm here and able to ride it too. Then is surfing, snowboarding, riding in skateparks, woups almost forgot those sprints..

Overtraining lasts when you do sports because it's fun. You love it. Not because of the results. Anyway, I wouldn't go back to Finland even for Xmas. Sorry my finnish family, I just feel so good here!!