Training Log: August 2023 Recovery Week
Every fourth week of my training cycle is a recovery week. I drop my normal mileage by roughly 60-70% during a recovery week so that my body can adapt to greater training loads. I usually walk a lot, lift weights, or bike or swim more during these weeks. I don’t usually do double runs. I try to sleep 8 hours or more per night to recover.
I find that recovery weeks have been quite helpful to prevent overtraining and injuries. The more I train, the more I realize how much time it takes to recover from higher mileage training weeks.
Last month’s training bloc was mostly Zone 2 training to build volume.
This coming training cycle, my plan is to maintain 110-120 KM/week training weeks, but also add one or two threshold sessions per week to build my V02 max.
All views expressed in this blog post are my own and do not constitute any form of medical, physiotherapy, or psychological advice.
