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| Extremely useful indeed!
One thing I did not understand is the author's comment about recovery time. She refers to D D Sherpa, last year's winner, as having "obviously very good recovery" since he had done the UTMB "only" a month earlier. I am not disputing her knowledge, just as a newcomer I was a bit surprised. I think most people would say a couple of days should be adequate, so even factor in the extremeness of the North Face runs, 1-2 weeks should be ample time for recovery even for normal persons  | |
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Recovery is an individual thing. Different people recover at different rates, but after something like a UTMB race a few days will certainly not be enough recovery. Even a normal marathon for many people will take a good few days to recover properly from, something like an Ultra marathon could take weeks.
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| And why did Jeff, an experienced runner who surely knows the nuances, choose to do his training run just 2-3 weeks prior to the actual UTMB Am I missing something here? Or is it like, a practice run is not so exerting as the real run | |
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From what I have seen of the pictures of his training run I gather he did it as a long weekends training. His training load would have probably been increasing up to that point and it was probably one of the last really big sessions before he started to taper. Also as far as I understand he slept during the recce run and since it was not the actual race he probably didn't push as hard as he did during the race. (I could be wrong with this, I'm reading between the lines and have not actually spoken to him lately so maybe when he recovers enough to type he might answer this himself.
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