2026-04-25

Drive home from Victoria

• Id: 2026-04-25-drive-home-from-victoria
• Title: Drive home from Victoria
• Kind: event
• Discipline: logistics
• Surface: off-bike
• Priority: key
• Planned time: all day
• Duration: ~16:00
• Location: Victoria, BC to home

Objective

Get home with the lowest practical cost so the next training decisions are driven by recovery status rather than compounded travel stress.

Goal

Complete the long drive while protecting hydration, fueling, posture, and basic recovery capacity.

Reasoning

This is not a training day, but it is still a high-stress day. The right planning choice is to treat the drive as a real fatigue event so the following day can be prescribed honestly instead of pretending the logistics cost does not count.

Event details

• Full day of driving home from Victoria.
• No training load planned.
• Treat this as a high-fatigue logistics day.

Recovery

• Stop regularly to walk briefly and reset posture.
• Use short mobility breaks for hips, thoracic spine, calves, and ankles.
• Do not stack training on top of the drive.

Fueling

• Build the day around regular meals, fluids, and sodium.
• Avoid finishing the drive underfueled and dehydrated.
• Keep easily digested carbohydrate and protein options in the car.

Constraints

• This is effectively a stress day even without training.
• The next day should stay very easy or fully off unless the body clearly says otherwise.

Notes

Coach intent: treat the logistics cost as real so the bridge block starts from honest recovery status.