Don't Tease Your Run Buddies

Send them before and after pictures of your feet.


My feet before the marathon:



And the same feet after the marathon:



Yes, this is for everyone who didn't have the time or inclination to run Hilo with me.

Training and Post Race

I think I hit on the perfect post-marathon recovery.

Immediately after race: Ice bath, 10 minutes foot and ankles, 5 minutes waist down.

Then eat, then sleep.

Next day: light jog to get the legs working again. More food, more sleep.

Stretching, lots of stretching, using yoga mat, foam roller, straps, and other implements of torture.

Hot tub.

More stretching.

2.5 hours of boogie boarding at Hapuna Beach.

drinks, more hot tub.

More boogie boarding.

More stretching, foam roller.

Ahhhhh...


My training for the race was this:
Saturday: long run
Sunday: recovery run
Monday: weight training
Tuesday: track workout (intervals)
Wednesday: medium run
Thursday: yoga
Friday: rest

Two days before the race: Yoga on the beach.

Big Island International Marathon

Hilo!

Second marathon. Complete. No question about it. Unless that question is, Why?

The run was absolutely beautiful, but the airport road will forever be burned in my memory. It started about half way and continued through mile 17, it was the hottest part of the race. It drained me and I couldn't recover before I hit the wall. Which is a shame, because the road from mile 20 to 25 was beautiful. And if I hadn't slowed down so much I could have broken 4 hours.

4:16:29. Better than 16 minutes off my previous time. At this rate of improvement I have to run 4 more marathons to qualify for Boston.

At mile 24 I asked myself, do I enjoy this?