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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.
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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I very much agree that recovery is an individual thing. Depends on the intent of the race (training, social, pacer, looking for a PR, etc) and the type of race. I may run an easy 50k just to set up for a longer race a week or two out. And I might run a "recovery" race the week after a hard ultra - pacing a slower runner. Keeping in mind that 166km is a LONG run (!), if you pick up a slight injury running the course the week before, that is going to be a serious nagging injury by the time the race is over.