So I hauled my butt out of bed early Monday morning to go for a little(ish) swim, thinking that I was bound to be stiff as a board and that would relax my muscles. So imagine how smug I felt when, apart from a slight ache in my hip flexors, I appeared to be absolutely fine. Swim over, I made my way to work, impressed at how I was able to climb the stairs so effortlessly and how I had invested in shares in Deep Heat for no reason.
Fast-forward 24hours as I go to sit cross-legged on the office floor (as you do!), and something along the lines of 'ooohhaaaahhhhheeeeeooooh that hurts' escaped from me. I did stretch after the run but could probably have spent longer on this. And really need to get into a proper warm up/ cool down routine still if I am to recover quickly from the longer training runs in the lead up to the marathon.
This afternoon I will be doing just a 5 mile run, then carbing it up all the way to the weekend. This is the best bit! Although for this half marathon it will be more complex carbohydrates, lots of pasta, bread etc rather than the fun carbohydrates, chocolate, crisps etc that were consumed all in the name of 'fuelling up' for the last one.
I'm just really interested to see what progress, if any, we have made since our first half marathon. I'm pretty sure we're a bit wiser, we're definitely fitter as our recovery is much quicker, but whether that will translate to a quicker time, who knows? But then this time around the half marathon isn't our end game, just a training tool along the way. When I read back that sentence I wonder who this is that's writing and what they've done with the real Sue! But I fear crazy running lady Sue is here to stay :S
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