Once again Little Rock Marathon recovery has included a 2 mile race! Why would I do this? Well, besides this particular race being in the Arkansas Grand Prix series this is an all around fun race for the whole family- including our new puppy Pepper! After last year’s surprising 2 mile race success (6 days post marathon) I decided to follow my same “training” strategy. This is basically do nothing but recover! I can handle that! Below is the week…
The week after a marathon is always full of many emotions for me. My mind likes to replay every mile of the race and I tend to analyze everything. The entire Little Rock Marathon experience was amazing in every way and I celebrated it to the fullest. I am never one to jump back into running right away after a marathon and I wanted to be cautious after LRM. Last week I enjoyed sleeping in and did not feel one…
Thank you for the kind comments on my blog, Facebook, and Twitter recently. As you can imagine it was very hard to drop out of a marathon at the last minute but it is what it is and I’m much better now- physically and emotionally! I think the hardest part was accepting reality and officially making the decision. I did get a kick out of some of the Facebook/blog comments. Particularly the ones who thought the thermometer was a positive…