Sunday Healing Long Run
I just finished a 11.049km run that lasted about 1hh:6mm:5ss !
Please note, I am not a doctor, or do I advise people to run when they are sick or injured
Is there a healing power that can only be found in a really long run. I'm not talking about stress release here either.
Yesterday I bailed on my usual Saturday arvo speed work as I was feeling under the weather and feeling like I was coming down with a cold. I got up this morning and even though I was feeling still a little average but decided I needed to get my long weekly run in.
I started my run and I didn't opt for my long tempo run that I have been doings over the past few weeks, and as the run started I was feeling like I was getting a fever and generally unwell. But although I decided to cut the tempo run, I decided to run at a slower pace for my Sunday run. For some reason it seemed to work, I am writing this post over 6 hours after the run and I still feel a lot better than I did when I started.
Not sure if it the improved blood flow from the run, heating up my body temperature or maybe breathing out all of the virus that I had, but I am glad I am better for it.
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You have uploaded 104 running activities, and 14 of them have been of similar distances (within 10 percent)!
Here are your 5-fastest running activities of a similar distance:
Over these 14 similar activities, you have travelled approximately 154.60 kms at an average pace of roughly 5:13 min/km!
Your latest run was at a pace of approximately 5:58min/km!
Looks like you went a bit slower this time! Remember that it's important to take some rest days, and do some rehab / prehab / strength and conditioning training too!