I like data. Usually I listen to my Garmin and it tells me how good I'm doing. I love how "stats" go better after consistent workouts. But recently my hrv and rhr look like shit, and I don't know what to do.
I made few questionable choices last week, like riding my first brevet after 4 hours of sleep and doing two hard workouts when I'm underrecovered after. I drastically decreased volume last week, but two hard workouts stayed.
During the last two workouts my hr was 10 beats lower than usual during the same intensity. I increased intensity and length, but hr seems hard to sway (during ftp workout I had 155 instead of stable 165, during vo2max 165-170 hr). I tried to hit max hr during one of the workouts, but I gave up at 186, while before (4 months ago) I remember having 196 during one sprint (different circumstances thought, back then I was less fit, smoking and working out with one fan indoors).
So, this whole week, I've been doing nothing, but my night hrv is 60 instead of 70-75, my rhr is 52 instead of 46. Numbers that made me happy before, now making me sad. Even though I feel decent and I can work out if I want to, I don't know if I should. Google says I should feel like shit and demotivated if overtrained, but I don't think it is the case.
I don't know if I should rest more and wait them hit new high, or last three weeks made me detrained (one week less volume before brevet, one week after with only two workouts, and this week when I'm doing nothing).