I have a question regarding race recovery in the pre-season. I did a long x-country ski race last Sunday that wasn’t supposed to be a big race for me. Since it was x-training, I don’t have the usual muscle soreness associated with running/biking/swimming races. I took two recovery days and then got back to regular training. After 1 training day, I noticed my RHR was high. I’m beginning to feel sluggish today and don’t want to push too hard. On the other hand, I don’t want to take a bunch of time off as I’ve got bigger races coming up in June.
How good an indicator is RHR of overtraining? Any suggestions of quick recovery techniques? Are there some good threads in here dealing with the subject?
kurt.