Joel Morrissette

Johnny-Here's my usual recovery scheme:

Day of race:
Spin legs out for 20 mins post-race on the trainer
Stretch before getting in the car
Hydrate with Accelerade immediately following the race. Consume protein
within 30 min of race to aid in muscle recovery. Have a balanced recovery
meal as soon as I get home.
Nap.

Day after race:
Full recovery day - no training rides, no running, no weights.
If muscles are sore, spin easily on the trainer for 20 mins to warm up the
legs, followed by light stretching to get the kinks out

To me, the key parts to avoid soreness are hydration, stretching and rest,
in that order. If it was a really tough race with lots of hard runups or
mud slogs I tend to be a little sore, largely due to not having enough hill
repeats in my running training. Rides that are taxing but fall within my
usual skills training leave me tired the next day, but not necessarily sore.
I take soreness to mean I asked my body to operate in a way that it
normally doesn't in training.

-Joel

2008/9/30 Johnny .

> I've done a couple races over the last few weeks and haven't been sore
> afterward. To me that means I'm not pushing it hard enough. Besides
> re-hydrating with copious amounts of beer, what do you do to recover from a
> day of racing? How sore are you the next day?
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