Hi all,
Today I did a recovery run. Which is typically a short run at less than 76% of your maximum heartrate - for me this means I try to stay below 140 bpm - but lower would be even better for this purpose.Welcome back to my #running blog.
Like a lot of runners, I needed quite some time to learn to appreciate recovery runs. At first I felt unnaturally slow and felt uncomfortable about the smaller strides lenght. But after a while I started to see tne benefits.
For me the benefits are both physically aswell as mentally. Physically it helps me to increase the blood circulation which in turn helps to recover from intense workout sessions. Furthermore it helps to increase your running efficiency (just like a zone 2 run) - this means that over time you will use less energy for maintaining the same speed (or if you run on a target heartrate you will get faster over time).
Mentally it helps to tolerate running at a pace that feels uncomfortable. This is important in a race as you will notice that on a busy race the first few kilometers are hectic where it is hard to find find your own rhythm, risking to start too fast and burning yourself too early.
I try to do 2 recovery runs a week - one after a lomg run and one after a speed workout.
Today’s run:
After a busy day at work it was very nice to have some time to run and reflect on the day.
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Keep up the discipline, that's a great running schedule. !BBH