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I've never seen it until yesterday. According to it I should be running my recovery runs (will be doing one today) at 10:30-11:00 pace. Wish me luck! Not sure if I can slow myself down that much. I will also be trying to use his pacing for my marathon training.
Michelle
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rockenmamof5: I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think that "recovery jog" refers specifically to the pace of your easy recoveries during a hard interval workout (i.e. if you did 6 x 800m with a 400m recovery jog in between the hard 800s). I don't think this is meant to be a pace for a whole run. I think the pace you probably want to run is the "easy run" pace, which is faster than the "recovery jog" pace. Cheers, Jeff
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Recovery run in this context means super easy days like the day after a workout or race. It is the whole run. But everyone is a bit different so if you are recovering well running a bit faster it's okay. As long as you feel better after a recovery run than before it you are probably doing it slow enough.
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By the way, I cheat on those recovery runs: the only way I can run 10-10:30 recovery pace is to walk. A lot. A little walk break every five minutes. If I tried just jogging at 10:30 pace, it would suck, and I'd get bored. Running steady that slow really does hurt, too.
Derek