Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

I do all that: eat right, recovery drink, etc., and from my perspective at 61 it's obvious that it takes longer to recover the older you get. What I used to recover from in 24 hrs. at 20, now sometimes takes me 72 hours. Back to back interval workouts are a thing of the past. Which doesn't mean accepting defeat. Denial is not just a river in Africa. It does mean training smarter, spacing your hard workouts, and watching more closely for signs of overreaching. I've taken my MRHR for years. That works really well.

On the good side, what with better nutrition and smarter training, I've gotten faster every year. I know that some year that's going to go the other way, but that's not this year.