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The Green and Gold aren’t looking to red-line their way into the pre-season schedule.

While the Edmonton Eskimos have had the pedal to the metal over the past two days of training camp, with two-a-day sessions that included padded practices, they are taking their foot off the gas and pulling into a rest stop for some recovery.

Friday’s on-field session will last just 40 minutes, as opposed to the three hours and 15 minutes they’ve been doing, before holding what basically amounts to an extended walk-through Saturday in preparation for Sunday’s non-televised exhibition game against the visiting B.C. Lions (2 p.m., 630 CHED).

“We’ve had our five hard days of this camp and we play a game on Sunday,” Eskimos head coach Jason Maas said. “We want our guys to be mentally and physically prepared to play, so we had it scheduled this way so three days from now, our guys are putting their best foot forward, physically and mentally.”

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