Recovery
I’ve not run since that race on Sunday, but that’s part of my plan. My body says to recover, and that’s far more important than the hard black ink that says I should already have clocked in 11 miles. Hell, I can do that tomorrow in one shot. I’m thinking of 10, instead.
But I haven’t been idle. That’s the difference between recovery and slack. Do what you can. Work with what you’ve got.
I’ve done the gym three times, working out places on my body that killed me during the run. I found that my back, my ass muscles, and a few other places needed a little more work.
I went and got a massage. If you still think of this as a luxury, and you’re logging some decent miles and racing, think again. You’re oldschool and not the cool kind of old school if you’re not trying to squeeze money out of the lunchbox funds to get the occasional massage to shake things back to normal.
I played tennis last night. Man, asskicking. I got a whole lot of sprinting in. I’m really enjoying this, now that it’s officially cool to play tennis. Can’t serve for crap, yet, but I’m a fairly decent player.
So, I’m off for a bunch of days. Going to the Common Ground Fair up in Maine. There’s a little 5K there, but mostly it’s about taking the kid around to see livestock, eating all kinds of organic and whole grain stuff, and doing all kinds of crunchy stuff like hanging out with fiddle bands and the like.
I hope you’re all well. See you Monday or so.
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You should have 11 miles already? That seems so high for recovery week. Everyone else is getting a massage. I need to get one too.
Looks like I can comment again. Cool!
You are very wise about resting Chris. Hold onto that wisdom as you get more miles/months under your belt. NOT resting when the body is saying you should is one of the biggest reasons people get injured.
But you know that don’t you?
You mentioned massage in this post. I posted about that very subject yesterday as well. :)
eating whole grain things at a fair? Has all this running gone to your head? Was the air thin up on that mountain?
Fairs are for cotton candy! fairs are for candy apples! Fairs are for all things NOT healthy!!!! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
BAH!
ooops, somehow lost that post… othewise you are getting ZWEI posts from Munchen….Prost from the Weis’n and Oktoberfest. zzzzzzzz…
Sounds like great fun. Enjoy, you deserve a rest!