Hi all, I know there are some quite experienced IronMan finishers out there, I am doing my first this year (IMCH) which is July 25th and I was wondering after the event how long is a reasonabe time to have off without training? The reason I ask that that I am considering the Dublin Marathon (25th October) so I would only have about 12 weeks between IM and Dublin to train, less however long it takes to recover from IM. I was planning on having an entire month off but now Dublin is in the equasion, was wondering if that could be halved or should i just wait another year for the marathon? Cheers
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depends on how fast you recover and if you get injuries but thinking about it a lot of people who did IM and some who did double IM last july and august did the JW Ultra in the september which was 30 miles.
It will also depend on how hard you are going to race the marathon.........you should retain a lot of your fitness even if you rest for a couple of weeks and then start running again
good luck
Typically I take half a week off or so and then I'm keen to get back out there, just for fun rather than hard training. My legs are always a lot better after an IM than they are after a Marathon.
You can perhaps get back to light training the 2nd week and build up during the 3rd week.
You will feel back to normal a week after the Ironman, the thing you wont notice until you push your endurance is that you'll have underlying fatigue for 4-8 weeks. How quickly you get over that will depend on how conditioned your body is to endurance training and events.
With a 12 week gap id say you can get in some decent marathon training weeks 4-10 before you taper, aiming to re-peek around week 8/9.
Steteches and massage can also help the recovery cycle so dont forget that.
Having said all the above I know of a couple of people that have found that they re-peek 4/5 weeks after an Ironman with little more than just rest and light training.
hopefully 5 weeks is plenty of time between IM's.........
It had better be!