Sleepless Knight
Jedi Knight Seeking His Jedi Princess
- Joined
- May 15, 2008
ATTQOTD: I've found that full recovery from race weekend varies depending on a variety of factors. My longest distance is a half and I have never run faster than 3 hours and 5 minutes. The only time I was fully or mostly trained and ran "just" the half, I was able to resume normal training albeit at a slightly slower pace 2 days after the half and normal speed 4 days later. Since that time, I've added multi race challenges which generally mean that I need to slow down substantially. For anywhere from 2-7 days after the half, I'm in a slow and steady keeps the exercise going mode until I feel like I'm ready to resume my normal training load. I've learned enough to know that if I have the next race scheduled and need to be training for it, that all my prior training is not lost if I take it easy for a few days.