Well, that wasn't too bad. I struggled for only a few days, not 3 weeks. The struggle was over by 1/31, 7 days after skiing. Today I went out for a morning ride to the river and ended up pedaling fast in the shower on the way back. And that was on top of 1.5 mile walk yesterday.
Amazing that the struggle was over so quickly given that the intensity of skiing was way more than biking. I was cramping all over for crying out loud. Maybe it's got to do with the fact that skiing down the bunny slope takes less than a minute and then you get to rest for 5 minutes on the chair. It was an interval training.
So I'm going back to skiing next week after the storm is over. It is supposed to dump 8 feet of snow by the time it is done. Not that it matters since I'll be on the bunny slopes mostly. But fresh power will be nice still.
I went back to my log for the Oregon trip last August to see if I struggled long like the trip to So Cal in 2016. I didn't. I was biking 4 days after we returned and I did the "ordeal" 6 days after. And they were comparable trips. So, I''m concluding that I am making a progress indeed.
But the cross-country trip in 2017 did result in a couple of 3 week post-trip struggles, one in NYC and another when we returned. And so did the trip to Paris. So the post-trip struggle is still alive and well; it's just that the exertion threshold went up.
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