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@RunningFromFat, @Agent_Smith , curious to find out, after the Comrades, how long did you allow for recovery time before running again? (any others I did not tag are also welcome to respond).

After doing 82km on Saturday, I took it easy this week, continuing to move though. I walked about 30mins a day from Monday. My legs are feeling much better today, and I am considering an easy 60min over the weekend. Would this be too soon? What is your approach to recovery?
 
CyberSakkie31 said:
@RunningFromFat, @Agent_Smith , curious to find out, after the Comrades, how long did you allow for recovery time before running again? (any others I did not tag are also welcome to respond).

After doing 82km on Saturday, I took it easy this week, continuing to move though. I walked about 30mins a day from Monday. My legs are feeling much better today, and I am considering an easy 60min over the weekend. Would this be too soon? What is your approach to recovery?
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I was a novice runner so I really don't know the correct way to go about it. I waited two weeks and tried to do a tempo parkrun and pulled out after 1km. My knee was ****ed. Then the following week (3rd week since comrades) I did very easy runs and was okay (7.5km easy treadmill ,5km tempo parkrun + 10km easy run on sunday). but then the following week, I was messed again cause I did a longer hilly tempo run and I haven't been the same since.

Basically I either have to stop running(cycle instead) for a while or run at 7:30mins/km as my heart rate is also way too high these days. Some guys I know already ran an ultra just a month after comrades, but they are seasoned runners.
 
RunningFromFat said:
I was a novice runner so I really don't know the correct way to go about it. I waited two weeks and tried to do a tempo parkrun and pulled out after 1km. My knee was ****ed. Then the following week (3rd week since comrades) I did very easy runs and was okay (7.5km easy treadmill ,5km tempo parkrun + 10km easy run on sunday). but then the following week, I was messed again cause I did a longer hilly tempo run and I haven't been the same since.

Basically I either have to stop running(cycle instead) for a while or run at 7:30mins/km as my heart rate is also way too high these days. Some guys I know already ran an ultra just a month after comrades, but they are seasoned runners.
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Thanks. yeah, this was my first time doing this distance, in new territory. Perhaps will try and see what it feels like.
 
CyberSakkie31 said:
@RunningFromFat, @Agent_Smith , curious to find out, after the Comrades, how long did you allow for recovery time before running again? (any others I did not tag are also welcome to respond).

After doing 82km on Saturday, I took it easy this week, continuing to move though. I walked about 30mins a day from Monday. My legs are feeling much better today, and I am considering an easy 60min over the weekend. Would this be too soon? What is your approach to recovery?
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Hmm, I'm probably not the right person to ask in this case as I've decided to basically take the rest of the year off from long distance 'competitive' running. I say competitive meaning races. It's been a long year for me so I'm allowing the body (as well as the mind) to reset from running. I still pop down to my running club during the week for an easy 30 minute run (but that's more to appease the Discovery overlords than any real training reason)

It doesn't hurt to err on the side of caution though. Your body has been through the ringer and there will be stresses on your muscles and joints that you may not necessarily feel on a day to day basis. Running again too soon could cause one of these smaller niggles to quickly morph into a serious issue. After 82km, my honest opinion would be at least 3 weeks off. That was my plan after Comrades but I have since extended that after discovering the joys of sleeping late on weekends. Whatever you decide to do, just listen to your body.
 
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