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Strong Women
How to run: why you should include recovery runs into your training
By Ally Sinyard
4 years ago
How do you recover after a long run or hard workout? If you’ve never heard of recovery runs, here’s why you should go slow and steady after your next race.
Maybe it’s the (intermittent) sun or life finally feeling a bit more normal, but we’re feeling more invigorated and energised lately. If you’ve been getting back into training since gyms reopened, these summery vibes might even have you looking towards your next fitness goal.
Perhaps you’ve been eyeballing your first 5km or are about to take part in a competitive sport for the first time in over a year. Whatever your next challenge might be, it’s important to think about recovery.
A few days ago, I ran my first 10k of 2021; it was sunny, I’d had my second vaccine with no side effects (go on, hate me) and was feeling up to the challenge. Granted, it was much slower than my runs of 2020 and certainly 2019, but I was just pleased to finish it after shying away for a while.
The next day, I was scrolling through Instagram when a boxer I follow posted about being out on a ’recovery run’. I’d literally never heard of such a thing. There is ‘run’, and there is ‘no run’. What is this in-between?
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