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12 Months to Marathon - Episode 57 - Why Sleep Matters
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Why Sleep Matters
Let’s start with the basics: sleep is when your body repairs, rebuilds, and recharges.
It’s not just 'rest' it’s active recovery.
When you sleep:
Your muscles repair microscopic damage from training
Your immune system strengthens
Your nervous system resets
Your brain processes motor learning and stores movement patterns
In other words, sleep is when you become a better runner.
Studies show that sleep deprivation can:
Reduce time to exhaustion
Increase perceived effort
Decrease glucose metabolism in the brain (which affects focus)
And even lower pain…
The skinny
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