I tend towards the view that after a marathon you deserve some time off from running, so I barely bothered during June. But while the evidence is that your physiology is impacted for about 6 weeks, after 5 weeks I was ready to run again. Of course starting with a 5km Parkrun race (I am in Glasgow for the weekend) may not have been a great idea, with that and a fast 5 mile plus hash run in the afternoon I was very sore today. Problem, I left my car 6 miles away last night after a 4th July party. In the end I did run over to pick it up, but with a mile of "warmup" walking before the legs felt up to anything swifter.
And what impact did 5 weeks off have? Well time wise I was almost exactly where I was on March 14th, or after a couple of weeks of a 12 week training schedule. It will be interesting to see if I can get my 5 and 10km times down again this summer.
