Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker.

When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers.

And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know.

If you're a new runner or you've been doing this for a long time,

there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. Hey runners, welcome to the

Running Explained podcast. I am Elizabeth. I am super excited to have you here this week. This week we're

talking about post-race recovery. As many of you are winding down your seasons,

getting in those big fall races, or maybe you have some big races coming up in December or January,

February, because there's always something going on somewhere. How can you best recover from

that big race effort? Now, I want to be very clear about what I'm talking about

when we talk about this episode is covering specifically. Post-race recovery is both a science

and an art. And it's going to take a little bit of tinkering over your time as a runner in the

multiple training cycles that you're going to go through over

the years to understand how your body responds to different situations and what works best for you.

Although there are some best principles and best practices we can go over to help guide you,

you have to realize that not every training cycle will require the exact

same type, duration, mode of post-race recovery. And by that I mean some races you may recover from

relatively quickly. In some races, you may need more time to recover. And that's not a moral failing on

your part. It doesn't make you any more or less of a runner. It has nothing to do with your fitness.

It just has to do with the fact that sometimes we need a little bit more and sometimes we need a

little bit less. And that's perfectly okay. But broadly speaking, here we're talk about the

things that you can do

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