Dialing it Back
So this morning, as I started out on my morning fifteen kilometre run, feeling a bit stiff despite taking a day off yesterday from weight training and giving my legs a break for the first time in a long time, I decided to cut my run short. Dial it back, as it were.
Instead of the planned fifteen I ran a decently paced, and by that I mean slow and easy but steady, 12km. It wasn't great, but it was good. Can't complain really. My heels feel a bit stiff, likely from the speed work that I've sprinkled into my workouts as well as the higher mileage than I am used to over the course of the last two weeks. My aim for the rest of this week is to go easy and actually achieve the "recovery" part of recovery week.
Labels: running
posted by Vava at
8:32 AM
2 Comments:
Rest is good. You've earned it.
Smart. Somewhere I just saw a good quote about how hard to push it during any given run during training. It was something like: "Your training schedule gets one vote, and your body gets two votes." In other words, listen to your body over what the training log says you should be doing.
I have to do this often. Just a couple weeks ago I had a 5 mile run trail run planned - I got out of the car, ran about 1/2 mile and my body was screaming "I need rest!", so I turned around and walked back to the car.
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