AM - 2 very slow (and painful) miles with Sparky. My calves were tight as all get out, my quads were still sore, and I was basically stumping my way around, which caused my lower back to feel sore by the end of the run. However, I am glad that I got out. This is the quickest I have ever started to recover from a marathon, and I take that as a good sign. I am hopeful that tomorrow will be better because of today.
I may also have just had my mind made up for me about which marathon to run - The Arizona Desert Classic Marathon is on January 31 next year, which is the same day as London's Run, a half marathon benefitting children's cancer charities. The story behind this run is tear-jerking, yet heart-warming to see how the family of the young girl whom the race is named after has handled her loss from cancer and has turned their loss into an event that helps others, and I am determined to run this race every year I can. So that means that, if possible, I will be running the LA marathon, which is just over 2 weeks after London's Run. That should give me enough time to recover, since it is only a half marathon.
Update #2: I just got an email from MarathonFoto with a link to my photos. Some of them don't look half bad (I just took screenshots of the large thumbnails and saved them to jpg's and cropped them - one of them is my new blog photo), and some of them look extremely dorky. But I guess that's the way it is . . . |