How do you recover after a meet?

I take a vacation day Mondays after a 2-day meet. I'm usually not sore, just overall fatigued. It sets in after the adrenaline rush wears off. The longer events seem to take more out of me than the shorter stuff. 4 events a day for a 2-day meet, mostly 200's and up with a few 100's. Interestingly enough, I experienced the same fatigue (or worse) when I was in charge of computer ops at a kids meet. Sometimes that's like semi-managed chaos and my stress level would be very high. I read that Aussie swim legend Kieren Perkins could only swim the mile all-out very infrequently as he required bedrest for a few days afterwards. In 1994 he was coached to swim the mile at the Commonwealth Games going hard for the first 800 split for the world record, then just cruise to the 1500 gold medal to save himself for the World Championships. Perkins deliberately disobeyed and set a world record mile 14:41.66 but fell short of expectations in the event at World Championships where a sub-14:30 was planned.

I take a vacation day Mondays after a 2-day meet. I'm usually not sore, just overall fatigued. It sets in after the adrenaline rush wears off. The longer events seem to take more out of me than the shorter stuff. 4 events a day for a 2-day meet, mostly 200's and up with a few 100's. Interestingly enough, I experienced the same fatigue (or worse) when I was in charge of computer ops at a kids meet. Sometimes that's like semi-managed chaos and my stress level would be very high. I read that Aussie swim legend Kieren Perkins could only swim the mile all-out very infrequently as he required bedrest for a few days afterwards. In 1994 he was coached to swim the mile at the Commonwealth Games going hard for the first 800 split for the world record, then just cruise to the 1500 gold medal to save himself for the World Championships. Perkins deliberately disobeyed and set a world record mile 14:41.66 but fell short of expectations in the event at World Championships where a sub-14:30 was planned.