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NotThamesWater
A lot of training plans have too many runs per week for me. If you're active and have other sports you enjoy then I think the recovery runs are less important as you'll get everything moving when you do your other sports. I can't be running 5 or 6 times a week. I cycle most days, keeping it easy stops me getting tired but helps with loosening everything up and getting the blood flowing. I do yoga a couple of times a week which again gets the blood flowing and the stretches help loosen everything up even more.
If I tried to follow a 5 or 6 run a week training plan I'd just be trashed so I go for 3 runs a week (one of LSD, tempo, intervals) as my "training schedule".
I think a lot of training plans are designed for people who are only running and some recommend that if you're doing other activities then you can drop the recovery runs and do that instead.