Recovery progression week

It's been a strange week but reality has finally come back to this neck of the woods as I begin to recover from my weekend exploits. The marathon was easy, felt easy, with no soreness or discomfort in the legs during the run or afterward. The next day I felt fine with no stiffness in the leg muscles and only a little stiffness in the hip joints, no worse than usual after my long runs.

However, when my feet hit the pavement on Tuesday it was a different story as I ran a very easy 6 miles around town. The legs were not stiff or sore but rather were very tired and heavy, almost as it I was wearing ankle weights or lead boots. Struggled to get the run in and then was rewarded with an aching hip for the rest of the day as I hobbled around the office.

Weds was a marginal improvement in mileage with 7 miles in the warm sun that Andrew was also enjoying near the same time in Calais. My run was much slower than his starting out at 9:00 pace and only improving marginally from there. Again, very heavy legs and looking for the run to be over. I guess the 26.2 did take a little out of the tank...

Today, Thurs was an other small increment in mileage to 9 miles but this time the legs felt much fresher from the get-go but then died out after about 5 and slogged the last part of the run. The 1st part was also faster (about 8:00 pace) because the other Andrew (from work) came out with me today and he was feeling good, so I had to keep up. Hmm, maybe he has bunny in him too? What a perfect day today with mid-20C temps, warm but not hot, light sea breeze, lovely!

Plan for Friday is 14-15mi and then off to PEI to move Steph to Nova Scotia. I understand that runners get hurt more often doing heavy lifting than they do running because the rest of their body is so underdeveloped. Hopefully this won't be the case and I can get through the weekend unscathed and with a few well placed runs between the driving and packing. Wish me luck and have a great weekend everyone!