I really need to find a good resource to explain why recovery from an Ironman is so dramatic and takes as long as it does. I'm still struggling to wrap my head around how it can be that different from long training days where you're doing 2/3 of the volume (with much less running, of course). Here's what I'm talking about. It's been over three weeks from the event. Since then: The first 7 days after the race were pretty much completely off from training. Towards the end of this week a wave of delayed fatigue tends to hit...