So after my race on Saturday, I knew right away I was going to have blisters on each big toe. The reason I knew this was the grade of the hills I was running pushed my foot around in the shoe in ways I never expected. So I was prepared for this part of recovery. Even though I body glided every single toe and part of my foot that would rub, it was still expected. I also fully expected I might have some bruised or black toenails. So far, that hasn't happened but sometimes it appears as much as a week after so I'm not in the clear yet.
The part that was the hardest was the dreaded DOMS - delayed onset muscle soreness. Usually I go ahead and wear compression sleeves after a race, but in my travels, I forgot to put them in my bag. But I figured I would be ok. The next day I felt it... and even into the second day ... today is Tuesday, the race was a few days ago now and things are starting to subside as far as muscle pain. I'm trying to decide if I want to do a recovery walk/light run or just not do much today. Some people like to rest following a race but I tend to feel better if I do a little bit of light activity. I guess everyone's different with this.
My next objective is to take an actual rest period... June 6-12 I plan on not running . I put it here so that way it's in writing and I don't back out. I've been known to do this... "oh just a short run won't hurt anything"... I might walk the dog but no running...
I might do yoga but no running....
I'm probably not doing strength training either to give the muscles a rest.
One might argue that yoga kind of is strength training... but either way... I need something
June 5th I had signed up for a 10k. This was before I signed up for my last hilly half out of the blue. And so I have made the commitment to do a 10k this weekend. But following that starts the break.
Then I have to pull out my marathon training plan which will likely start up June 13.
Since I trained up to 16 miles for my half on May 1 and done up to 14 x 800 intervals, I decided to do an intermediate marathon training plan. My weeks are about 20-25 miles right now so I'm thinking I won't need to go back to basics. I found some good ones and modified them a little to fit in the races I already signed up for in August (a trail half marathon), September (10k with a friend), and then the aforementioned 10k in June . I also plan on going to the beach for a week where I will continue to run and maybe do a 5k there with some friends who are going on the trip as well.
So I will post on here as soon as I definitely have the plan figured out. The highest mileage long run I have planned is a 20 miler. I've heard varying opinions about whether it is necessary to go over 20 to feel truly prepared for a marathon. For a half it felt important to me to go above and beyond the distance. But in the case of 26.2 I'm not sure if it's smart to do this or not... more on this later.
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