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Some people say that after a race, you should rest a day for every mile you ran.\u00a0 Resting for 26 days?\u00a0 Yeah, that’s not going to happen.\u00a0 I have another race soon!\u00a0 So I had to find a better plan.\u00a0 Since I used a modified Hal Higdon<\/a> plan to get me to the marathon, I’m following a modified version of his marathon recovery plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One interesting thing I learned – it can take 2-3 weeks to recover from running a marathon.\u00a0 Admittedly, I walked at least ten miles of the marathon due to the heat and my sister’s injury, so I fully anticipate recovering a bit more quickly.\u00a0 That said, I’m trying to be careful.<\/p>\n

So for what Higdon calls zero week, the week immediately following the marathon, I was mostly a slug.\u00a0 I stretched a bit and massaged a particularly stubborn knot in my calf.\u00a0 By Thursday, I hopped on my bike.\u00a0 I cleaned the house and took down the Christmas tree.\u00a0 And on Sunday, I set out for a nice easy 5-6 miles.<\/p>\n

This run was not all I hoped it would be.\u00a0 It was only 6 miles!\u00a0 Shouldn’t that be easy after training for 26.2?\u00a0 But I just felt sluggish.\u00a0 I couldn’t get into my running groove.\u00a0 I kept looking at my watch and realizing just how slow I was going, but couldn’t convince my body to speed up.\u00a0 All in all, it was a frustrating run, but it was still good to get it in.<\/p>\n

But I guess that’s what marathon recovery is all about.\u00a0 I’m trying to ease back in a bit more this week, adding cycling as a more regular bit of crosstraining, seeing as I have a triathlon in a few months.\u00a0 I’m also planning to hit the Team Fight group swim tonight.\u00a0 It kind of terrifies me, but I’m going to do it anyway.<\/p>\n

The major key to this plan is to take everything easy.\u00a0 I might seem like I’m doing a lot, but each workout is going to be light.\u00a0 Low stress.\u00a0 Easing back in.\u00a0 No time for injuries, after all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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