Stick to the plan.
Corollary: Listen to your body.
I knew my preparation have been cut short and it would be really tricky to hold off the pace all the race. Result, I decided to go even faster. It sounds now pretty dumb, but in the heat of the moment I had certainly good reasons.
Unsurprisingly, it is pretty typical to hold the pace for 3/4 of the race, and hit the bottom at the end of the race. A beginner mistake. What is weird, is that I was smart enough to avoid this trap on the first marathon, and did it this time. Well, plan was to stick under a reasonable heart beat , save energy until the end. Next time, I think I am gonna stick to it.
Learned my lesson.
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| Massage Therapist on site. That helps the fool. |
Recovery went actually pretty well. With the help of my on-site-specialist, and two 2 hours long deep tissue massages, I can now walk normally.
Almost normally.
The calves were so tense they were contracting by themselves, even relaxed, like there was an alien ramping under the skin.
Scary.
It took 3 hours to get rid of most of the knots hidden in the muscles, and the process was so painful, I promised to not run anymore ever or do any kind of physical activity.
To prove my point, I indulged myself with a beer that night.
Feeling guilty, the day after, I went for one hour swim at the pool.
If I could have run, I would have.
I am sick.
I am an addict.
ps: I found a good trick to handle super long stretches session. I cannot call that Yoga anymore, because the focus is not there, would argue my on-site-yoga-teacher. I am looking at the TV. Say what you want, this is pretty new to me. And as you do not have the TV, I can only recommend this:
https://www.youtube.com/user/WhiteSpotPirates
A step by step documentary about how to waste your life on fixing an old boat and hope to travel the world. Amazingly so close of my next blog subject :)
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