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Marathon Recovery: Week 1

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After the marathon, my legs and body were pretty sore and beat up!

I really enjoyed this quote that @runtowin posted on Twitter.

“I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.” — former NFL DT Alan Page after a marathon

I actually saw Alan in the early miles of the marathon playing his tuba! But everything above the waist felt great, while it hurt to walk around!

I did find that the more I walked around the looser and better my legs felt.  But if I sat too long at my desk I’d get really stiff.  I got a massage on Monday which helped my walking since it loosened up the calf and hamstring muscles.  Tuesday was feeling better but still a little stiff.  By Wednesday morning I was feeling almost normal again and decided to bike to work.  I biked a total of 8 miles and felt pretty good.  I tried to take it nice and easy and not push too hard. On Thursday I rode to work again and had Christy meet me afterwards for a casual ride to enjoy some of the changing leaf colors and enjoy the nice weather.  We ended up riding almost 18 miles! Friday I left for a work retreat, we went just out side the metro-area to a beautiful YMCA camp and spent most of the day inside. But on Saturday we did a high ropes course 30 feet in the air! It is amazing how much energy can be expended on a ropes course.  I had brought running clothes but didn’t wake up in time to run before breakfast.  I finally got around to running on Sunday.  I had planned to go running at Pike Island, but on the way there decided to try a new place.

I had a vague idea of where I was supposed to be going to get to the start but it is a little confusing of an area.  I hadn’t brought my cell phone which has Google maps built in, so I was pretty much just guessing!  I wanted to go to Sibley house and run those trails, but instead ran along Crosby Farms.  When I got back and looked at a map, I realized my mistakes, but this was still a nice 5K run.  I actually ran on the river bank for a little while before running on a dirt/sand trail and then using a paved path to get back to my car! It was a nice, scenic, and refreshing first run back.  I was in no hurry and finished in 25:22. I was a little stiff at the beginning but it worked itself out by the end.  My legs are still a little tired!

Weekly Mileage:

Running – 3.1 miles

Biking – 25.8 miles

[tags] Marathon, Crosby Farms [/tags]

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Chart & Map Your Favorite Course

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Using Google’s Gmaps Pedometer technology you can easily chart your upcoming run, or figure out how far you ran today. It seems to be fairly accurate and easy to use. Some other benefits include being able to e-mail the route to a friend, save a link to your route in any electronic format (excel, word, etc) and can view a topographic map of the area (limited areas currently). You can get the map in miles or kilometers.

The USATF has actually taken this technology one step farther with there website America’s Running Routes. Another popular site with similar features and the ability to add thinks such as aid stations, points of interest, and others is Run the Planet’s www.run.com Both site let you save your routes in a searchable database for other interested runners. If you travel you can use this feature to find a route in your destination city.

I would highly recommend using any of these sites, they definitely have helped on longer runs when you need to measure out some strange or different routes (to break up the monotony).


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