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| # Posted 2007-09-21 01:53:28 | |
| Gil: | Sounds familiar. I could run without any major muscle pains after BRR next week. But feeling I had for about 2 month was something like lack of energy/I am out of shape/"damn I am getting old and slowing down". Mike says recovery time is day per mile raced, Rick Werner says it is week for 10 miles raced. I think it was something in between for me. However both methods give good idea when to expect energy level to return. |
| # Posted 2007-09-21 11:15:48 | |
| RLShadow: | Thanks for the insight, from your experience. I've also heard the one day per mile rule, which seems a bit on the extreme side, so maybe the week per 10 miles makes a little more sense. I was hoping to be pretty well recovered in two weeks, which would be a little more optimistic than the week per 10 mile rule of thumb. Anyway, right now, I'm just glad to be over the muscle soreness and a blister that I developed.
Actually, I only had one pretty uncomfortable day (Monday), by Tuesday I was able to walk up and down stairs with no major problem, which was a big improvement over how I felt on Monday. |
| # Posted 2007-09-21 19:31:11 | |
| RLShadow: | Just thinking a little more about the rule of thumb of one day per mile, and why I think it is a little on the extreme side --
This past season, as part of the training for Pike's Peak, I did two fairly substantial races, a 25K trail race at Finger Lakes National Forest (nearly 16 miles), and the Phelps 20K (12 miles). For neither of those, did the recovery take anywhere close to 1 day per mile. I feel in both cases, I was past feeling any effects from the race within a week. In fact, I did a 5K race exactly one week after the Phelps race, and felt quite good, with a time that was in line with my expectations. I'm sure it will take longer to recover from the marathon, partly because obviously the marathon is simply longer than those other races, but also because the marathon exceeded any training run that I had done (by 9 miles), while the other two were either shorter than any training run or not much longer. But I still think that 1 day per mile (26 days) is a very conservative prediction. At least I hope it is. :) |
| # Posted 2007-09-22 09:36:14 | |
| bishop22: | It depends what you mean by "recovery". The one day per mile rule means that you are not ready to really race again, until that time has elapsed. It also assumes truly "racing" the distance, which I, for one, don't seem to be able to do anymore. I assume that I am just hitting some artificial mental limit in the few pure running races that I do now, rather than a physical limit, because I do seem to recover more quickly from races than I used to (although I recover much more slowly from workouts!?!). |
| # Posted 2007-09-22 10:48:47 | |
| RLShadow: | Good point. I think I'm in the same boat, that I'm not sure if I'm really "racing" like I used to. In the 25K trail run, I did view that as a training run rather than a race, for example. Although I was more wiped out at the end, than after a typical training run.
The Phelps 20K, on the other hand, I did feel like I was racing it. My pace was substantially faster than it would have been for a training run of that length, and I was definitely pushing pretty hard the last few miles. |
| # Posted 2007-09-22 11:30:45 | |
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