Discuss.
Discuss.
anything between 20 and 45 minutes.
2*45 min easy is a perfect recovery day.
ggg wrote:
anything between 20 and 45 minutes.
2*45 min easy is a perfect recovery day.
Just last night i was talking to a friend about this and we came to the agreement 20 mins is about the minimum and 45 about the ideal maximum. He isn't a distance runner, moreso of a fitness freak who coaches track and field amongst other things. Where we didn't agree in is the benefits of extremely long runs in terms of regenerative benefits vs the time invested in such runs (90-150mins).
it depends on weekly mileage. Someone running 50 miles a week might put in a 45 mile recovery run and someone running 150 miles a week might do 2 hours.
20-40 minutes range seems good.
Shakeouts/recoverys/easy days
finished wrote:
Someone running 50 miles a week might put in a 45 mile recovery run
F*ck me, I need to get working!
Doesn't it depend on what you are "recovering" from? I
f you are recovering from a hard long race, sometimes 20 minutes is long enough for me. If it is a hard-ish long run when I am in good shape and running about 90-95 mpw, I take the pace easy and go about 90 minutes.
It is a very good question, though. I have sometimes thought to myself, is a 12 mile run really a recovery run?
But I never think of my runs in those terms, though. I think of every run, whether it be "warm-up," "cool-down," "workout," "going somewhere," or "recover" as "training." It's all training.
10 miles jog isn't that taxing