What Are Recovery Runs?

3rd August 2019

If you spend time on Strava, follow runners on Twitter or Instagram or just have a lot of running friends, the chances are you’ll have seen talk of ‘recovery runs’. But do you really know what they are? And if you think you do, are you doing them right?

In this video we’ll cover exactly what recovery runs are, and how to make them work for you.

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