Recovery

Hi,

I'm wondering how many days people rest on a typical week of training?

Personally I'm running 6 miles on 4 mornings a week, 3 of the days being back to back and one day I'm running 8-10 miles at the weekend. I'm starting to feel tired and my muscles ache before I've even set off, I'm thinking I maybe need to take a week off to fully rest, which I really don't want to do, or incorporate more rest days.

I'd love to hear your advice and experiences.

Thanks

Depending on where I am in my training, I run between four and six days a week.  So that means between 1 and 3 rest days.

How do you pace your runs?  even when running six times a week, I wouldn't do more than "three" quality sessions with the remaining sessions run at an easy recovery pace.

For your three consecutive days, if you run the first day at a high pace you probably want to run the second and maybe the third day at a lower intensity.  

Personally, taking a week off now and again is always worth it and doesn't have any major impact on your fitness. 

I generally have two rest days each week, which entails running no more than 3 miles on each day - try and run those days very easily - took a week off in the summer when on holdiay - (won't run Christmas Day or Boxing day either)

Thank you for the advice guys, it's interesting to see what other people do.

I tend to run 2 of my runs at 8:30 mpm I do 2 tempo runs varying between 7.30mpm - 9.30 mpm and run my 10 mile run at about 9 mpm.

Thta feels quite slow to me, would you suggest I take it slower?

I am going on holiday for 10 days over Xmas, so I'm thinking about leaving my trainers at home and maybe just doing some swimming and lots of relaxing.