"training"

struck up a conversation with a woman in the lobby of my doc today. basically it went something like this..

woman: you look like you ran here. (eyes my jacket) oh wow did you run the marathon?

me: haha yea i did actually.. i just came from the gym though, i didn't run here.

woman: wow that's incredible, good for you. what was your time?

me: 4:49:40

woman: that's fantastic. will you run it again?

me: yea, i'm gonna do it again next year.

woman: ahh so you enjoyed it.

me: "enjoyed" might be the wrong word..

so yea, today was a pretty hectic day.. during marathon training i had tuesdays off.. which was nice because i didnt have to worry about running or getting a workout in between work, faculty meetings, and class. today, however, i had to squeeze a short workout in between all those three as well as a doctors appointment over on the east side, which by the way, i haaaate. yes, i am indeed a west-side snob.. and proud of it.

aaanywho, i'm in the midst of a month long 10k "training" schedule.. i hesitate to call this training seeing as though i'm still technically in recovery from the marathon.. and i dont actually feel like i need to "train" to run a 10k.. which sounds like a joke at this point. at the run last saturday morning, coach neil explained how it takes approximately four to six weeks for your body to recover after running a marathon, depending on age.

immediately following the marathon, i felt pretty good. a few hours later though my joints started to lock up and by the following morning, my muscles (especially the quads) were as tight as they've ever been. i walked rather slowly and slightly like a duck.. took the elevator.. and when i had to take the stairs, i may have walked down them backwards.. but by wednesday, i felt fine. good enough to run? no no definitely not.

about a week later my body was ready for some short easy runs.. up until last saturday when myself, coaches neil, sid, and asteria (i dunno that i spelt that correctly.. if i didnt, someone please correct me), ran an easy 4.5 miles in the park, i hadn't run more than 3 miles post-marathon. nice thing about running a 10k is that all the "training" runs are technically short.. heck, the race itself won't even last longer than an hour.

today i just did some cross training and tomorrow i'll do a quick easy 3 miles after work. i'm relentlessly trying to convince chris to run the garden city turkey trot on thanksgiving morning with me.. wish me luck (with the convincing, not the running).

anyone else running or want to run? dooooo it.. it'll totally make you feel better about stuffing your face at the table later in the day.

and don't worry.. running a turkey trot will not make you a runner.

i promise.