anyone know how long it takes to recover fully after giving blood. I assumed 24hrs as that's what the nurse said but todays run made me think it must be longer as I was unusually lethargic (gave away blood yesterday). Perhaps it was the free biscuits!
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I still reckon it must take at least a week otherwise the runners who used to go in for blood doping would just have had a pint removed one day and then stuffed it back in the next before a world record attempt.
It takes 24-48 hours to replace the VOLUME of blood donated, but the full 100% recovery takes much longer, appx 1 month. These are my recovery times:
Steady Runs = next day onwards.
Brisk runs = one week later
Interval sessions = 1-2 weeks
Full training (long runs & intervals) = 2 weeks
Race = 2 weeks if I'm not too bothered about a good time.
Race = 4 weeks if I want a good result.
Martin.
Also from previous threads it seemed that bigger people recovered quicker than smaller people.