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  • 22-02-2014 9:19pm
    #1
    LloydChristmas
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    So I have signed up for two races on consecutive weekends. One is half marathon and the other is 10m. Not ideal but I am going to drive on with them...

    The first race I am not too pushed about so I will take it easy going round but its still a good distance. The second race which is 7 days after is a goal race I want to target a PB in. It may not happen now but I'm ok with that. So, I will then have 7 days to recover and freshen up the legs...
    Any tips on what I should do to help and in particular the training in the week in between them

    My thoughts so far:

    After race 1, get in a good protein drink immediately after finishing with some carbs...Home and get into an ice-bath for half an hour (enough time?)....Have a big meal and get plenty of water into me for rest of day.

    For the next 7 days, I am thinking just run easy pace miles. Do not run any race pace miles or faster strides as these will just do further damage. Keep hydrated and eat well and stretch and foam roll every night...

    Anything I might be missing or any thoughts in general ?


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  • #2
    menoscemo
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    LloydChristmas wrote: »

    Anything I might be missing or any thoughts in general ?

    I think you are overthinking it...


  • #3
    viperlogic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭viperlogic


    sports massage inbetween maybe? nothing too deep thou


  • #4
    TFBubendorfer
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    Meno is right, you're overthinking it. If you don't race the first race you'll be well recovered a week later.


  • #5
    thewolf_ie
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    Lots of sleep.....


  • #6
    frankeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭frankeee


    LloydChristmas wrote: »
    So I have signed up for two races on consecutive weekends. One is half marathon and the other is 10m. Not ideal but I am going to drive on with them...

    The first race I am not too pushed about so I will take it easy going round but its still a good distance. The second race which is 7 days after is a goal race I want to target a PB in. It may not happen now but I'm ok with that. So, I will then have 7 days to recover and freshen up the legs...
    Any tips on what I should do to help and in particular the training in the week in between them

    My thoughts so far:

    l ?

    If it was me, and I was n't too bothered about the first race, rather than take it easy, I would take the first half of the race very easy and then run the second half at your goal pace for the 10 miler. In my experience not alone would you be recovered but could potentially see in an improvement in performance the following week. It would also give you an opportunity to test your goal race pace in a competitive environment and a nice psychological boost as you would be passing a lot of the more even split runners.


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