This 19-minute run is my easy ‘comeback’ run after 5 days of recovery and zero running. My body battery isn’t yet where I want to be, but at least my legs feel a lot better than they did last Sunday. Depending on how I wake up tomorrow (I have a 50th birthday party tonight), I will go for another run.
@camiel I’m ignoring Body Battery for determining my fitness level. As long as one lives healthy and sleeps regularly, it easily can be ignored. Even the more relevant Training Readiness seems a poor gage, since I ran a marathon at 74% readiness and an unstable heart rate variability (HRV), and a strong advice to take rest. Being 85% right is still a lying to a user, even if it sounds convincing and “scientific.” But I guess if one is ignoring clear signals from one’s body, it’s a safety net to avoid over-training, or, worse.
Thanks for the good advice. I agree with your thoughts on the body battery metric. I use it mainly as an indicator.
While far from perfect, it often does capture how my body feels—tired, strong, drained, etc. I like using it as an advisory metric during my travels to different time zones.