Can I Run a Sub

Week 3 of training for my 10k is in the bank and in this video I review my 3 phases of recovery.
1. Nutrition, especially post workout refueling. Carbs and protein after a hard/long session will kickstart your body into refueling and rebuilding the breakdown and depletion that just happened.
2. Muscle recovery. So many athletes neglect this...and so many athletes are injured! Just a few focused minutes a day with your foam roller or recovery tool is all it'll take to maintain muscle recovery and keep your muscles loose and happy.
3. Sleep! This is a no brainer and if you're often training while depriving yourself of sleep, you're not performing to your potential.

[@laurenmillyx]

How do you find the reduced volume from tri to running has affected your performance at all? Also has your nutrition changed?

[@RunningWithDusty]

Reduced volume from tri to running has been incredible. I am putting in more run training volume now vs running during triathlon training, but overall weekly training hours are obviously much lower now that I'm only (mostly) running. This has made my energy levels MUCH better than when I'm tri training. Performance wise, it seems like every month I reach a new level with my run fitness. This has definitely been a result of being able to run more with not having to swim/bike. Nutrition hasn't really changed. Honestly, I usually have to make sure I'm eating enough so that I don't get too light.

[@laurenmillyx]

@@RunningWithDusty thank you this is really helpful! I’m actually coming at it from a different angle. I am a distance runner but got injured last autumn and cross trained (bike and ARC trainer) for around 4 months. I think I felt like I had to do so much more becuase I wasn’t running and got up to 18-20hours! Now I am back running but running only 4 days and much lower mileage (around 55-60km compared to 90-110km i used to do) so still do around 12 hours of XT (ARC trainer and bike - all aerobic not hard stuff) but wondering if this is hampering my performance? And interesting from the nutrition side of view - i was worried with less training hours I would have to eat less?