I've not run for two weeks as a result of an ankle sprain. I'm about to start running again. I was on about 80 miles a week in preparation for the London to Brighton Race (6th of Oct.). I'm now hoping to do the Leek half (Sunday) and then the Wolverhampton marathon (1st Sept.) as training runs. How much will I have lost in those two weeks? I'm going to take it steady tomorrow. I've been cross training - bike and gym and I've no real pain on running but I'm mortified at the prospect of doing the sprain thing again (1st time ever!) and even more so at missing my beloved races.
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You may even have found that a brief lay-off like this has enhanced your abilities, as the body will use this brief break to make the body stronger, in preparedness for the next period of training - it is often recommended by training 'gurus' that every so often you have a week/fortnight of rest/light training to enable to body to recover and grow stronger - see how you get on when you return to training!
On holidays i have found - one week of rest (bit of swimming and lot of lounging) makes me run faster, 2 weeks i'm not at a peak, but haven't lost anything. Go back into running carefully and after a couple of weeks, you won't even know that you've had time off.