You know, I like to be fit and healthy, so the best way I know is to just get out there and run.

Running was an outlet for me to, I guess, feel good about myself and take out some of the angers that were going on in my life.

Sonio Sullivan is going to take the world title back to our...

We are back on the road to your fastest 5K with the goat, the undisputed queen of Irish

athletics, Sonia O'Sullivan. Aside from the obvious, there seems to be one simple thing

that no 5K runner can ignore. We need to learn to recover from training to really enjoy the benefits of that training.

You don't get better at running while you're running, right, Sonia? That's what they say. What do

they mean by that to start with? What does that exactly mean? You need more than just running to be better. I think. I mean,

you do have to run to get better. You can say you don't get better running. Sure, but you don't

enjoy the benefit of the running if you don't rest. Is that what they're saying? Yes. I mean, I think, you know, running is the most

important thing if you want to be a better runner. But you also need to build some rest and

recovery into your training week so that you can absorb that training. So there's a lot of you're

running a lot of time, but you can't just keep, you know,

logging miles and miles on top of each other. And, and of course, it's very different for

every level of runner as well, you know, depending on like the amount of sessions that you're doing.

If you're training for a marathon, the amount of miles that you're running.

And it's really just about spacing out your runs throughout the week and allowing a recovery

period in there and whether that could be having, like, I suppose, breaks in your running.

So maybe you don't run every day or you might

run in the morning one day and the next day you might run in the evening. So you get a longer

recovery period in between or you might include some recovery methods within your running. So

things like cross training. So you could do some swimming is always really good,

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