Joanne Smith cut her training from 100-mile ultramarathons to 10Ks and argues recovery isn't about fixing your body. The real problem, she says, is how your brain controls it. Doing less works better than aggressive repair.
probably seen that as part of my recovery journey, believe it or not, I have weaned a bit down because I was being very, very active doing massive, massive distances of over 100 miles in one, in ultra runs over 100-mile distances, but actually what I think many, many insights I've had along this way is that Um, you don't have to, you don't have to do so much to get well. In a way, sometimes it's, it's, it's doing it, doing less for many people. Um, so for me, it's been a bit of a do less. I mean, I did still do recently, a few weeks ago, Yorkshire Three Peaks, we ran that, it's about 25 miles, and maybe just some like 10-mile runs here and there and 10K last night, but I'm just going a lot easy really lately, and, but I've tried the approach of focusing too much on the body and And clearly I was on the completely wrong path. So much focus on trying to fix a body. Um, but that's the issue. If the, if the, if the root of everything what's happening is being controlled by the brain, um, but it just really looks like there's something wrong with the body, you're going to be completely on the wrong path. So I just want to save anyone and everyone who may potentially be doing some of the unintentional mistakes what I did, because it's no fun. It's really not fun when you're maybe being a warrior and, oh well, if I have to have this anyway and I've been told that it's a lifetime issue, then I'm just gonna go and do what I can
