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How Many Days Do You Need to Recover After a Maratan?
If top athletes could race more, they would. But i don't think they cani mean as much s we talk about hard things are so variable. It's a very fast moving, slippery target that you've just drawn on the wall there. I reckon three to five days after a marithan, you can be back training asier, easier. If you're not well trained, then four weeks. One weekyesso. Nothin. No, not wheyou were apiq, i would sy two weeks if you were well trained. And it's like a six week, eight week proposition just to get back to normal. You know, risk of injury too high
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