Recovery Run

[drl212]

Well, its turned out to be one of those weeks in which my to-do list at work and home is pouring over the dam!

I did get out for a wonderful 30 min recovery run on Tuesday at a very nice pace. The run blew out the cobwebs of a headache that's been lingering for a week.

I'm due out for a run today and can't decide if I want to do a long run, speed run, or another recovery run. I think it may be a 'just get out the door' run and I'll decide later.

A question for experienced runners, do you develop an innate sense of your pace. I've gone on runs that felt to me to be at a slow pace and it was one of my fastest? Another day, I thought I was at my average pace and I was slower...

I suppose as you become more fit your slow/fast pace changes...

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Well done you... as you run more, you learn so much about your body, and every other bit of you... and your pace, it is all evolving and often surprising.

The trick of just going with it, comes too... one of my old favourite posts... The three As... it applies to our running and our lives too really!

Have a read if you can find the time

healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

On you go... this a great journey of discovery !

[drl212 Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Thanks very much! Great post!!!

Wait til I have some time to post about today's run...LOLOLOL...

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10 in reply to drl212]

Don’t leave us in suspense!!! What did gig eve up doing?

[SweatyHettie]

I can relate to this - sometimes I think we’re quite slow and then I find I’ve done a fast run. I never have any particular intention to run at any pace but I suppose you get to know what is comfortable. Ebony is my pacesetter and I do often rein her in at the beginning as she does go off more with enthusiasm than to conserve energy at times!

[MissUnderstanding Administrator Graduate10]

I have got much better at judging my own effort-I used to think I was running at a comfortable, conversational pace when I was actually mainly doing tempo runs!! Nike Run Club has been so helpful with that. I haven’t really focussed on running specific pace numbers and I’m still pretty rubbish at actually judging how fast (or not!) I’m going. That might be because the terrain I run in is so varied, so a comfortable effort can have me running at 5-8mins per km which is a wide range!! Also, it depends where I am in the run. For a comfortable 5km run, the first km is often 2 mins mar km slower than that last at the same effort.

When I’ve been training for pb’s, I look at my watch as I’m running…either to pick up and hold a goal pace for a certain distance/time or make sure I haven’t accidentally gone too fast at the start!

I guess that’s a long winded way of saying I usually pay no attention to actual pace and rely on effort. That means I’m quite often surprised by how fast or slow my runs have been!!