Why you should incorporate recovery weeks in your training

The mental aspect

Andreas Westerlund
2 min readJan 27

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Photo by Michael DeMoya on Unsplash

It’s Friday morning, time to knock out the long run of the week. A couple of months into the 100-mile prep. It’s cold and wet, typical Finnish winter. The long runs are actually getting pretty long.

Throughout the run, I keep thinking “next week will be super nice”. The reason is that the next week is a…

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Andreas Westerlund

Endurance athlete, digital nomad, nerd. Just a normal guy trying to figure out fitness, business, and life. https://www.andreaswesterlund.com