Ridiculous recovery time - 52 hours recuperation

Today I ran 14 kilometers at 133 heartbeats, at the end the clock gave me 22 hours of recovery. Then my coach told me to do 4 straight stretches of 100 meters in 18 seconds. After that, setting the clock gave me 54 hours of recovery for a 5-minute session of which I only ran 400 meters and the rest was rest. Why does this happen?

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9820003 20 days ago +1

yeah, anaerobic effort impacts recovery time a lot, pbly way too much
ovekvam 17 days ago in reply to StreetLight +1

The recovery time is not supposed to be complete rest. You recover faster if you do some recovery workouts, like a easy runs.

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0 9820003 20 days ago

yeah, anaerobic effort impacts recovery time a lot, pbly way too much

0 ovekvam 20 days ago in reply to 9820003

Recovery times are very different from person to person. I have lots of fast twitch muscle fibres, so I generally have long recovery times. The watch does not know this.

0 StreetLight 17 days ago

I also at times got reccomended very long recovery times, and that usually happens when I start running again after I didn't run for some time.

After ignoring the high suggestion and going to run anyway, the watch learns that I am more resilient than it thought, and it does give more reasonable numbers.

So try ignoring that and it will eventually give you realistic numbers. At least for me it worked that way

0 ovekvam 17 days ago in reply to StreetLight

The recovery time is not supposed to be complete rest. You recover faster if you do some recovery workouts, like a easy runs.