These allow you to recover from a hard week of training, or a tough race or to prepare for a tough training week. They improve your blood flow to and from muscles, which helps to improve muscle repair and speeds recovery.
The pace should be a lot slower than any you use in a race. Something like 75% of your perceived race effort. Perhaps 90 secs per km slower than your 10km race time.
Run for about 40 minutes. Don’t get carried away if you are running with others who might have different pace or distance objectives.
Your recovery run will add to your weekly volume, all of which helps build additional endurance.
Graeme Loudain – September 2019
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