It was not long ago that I was explaining to someone that the ideal training day would be to run a Long Run in the morning, a tempo at lunch, and an interval session before dinner. Unfortunately, we cannot recover fast enough from a hard session to adhere to such a routine. Dylan Wykes has been in Flagstaff, Arizona training for his fast approaching stab at the Canadian Olympic Marathon standard of 2:11:29.
Wykes shares what a typical recovery session looks like after a particularly harder session.
I thought I’d write a little about my post workout/long run recovery routine. This idea came to me as I was standing in the ice tub, wishing I wasn’t, and reviewing an article posted to twitter about how ice bath’s aren’t really useful for recovery! My first thought was, ‘well sorry the Cryosauna was in the shop today’. Second thought was, maybe some people out there would be interested in the measures I take to try to recover well after hard efforts. Read The Full Blog Post.
