Patience; the new endurance sport.

Question: Why do your kids build a huge Star-Wars Multi-Teird Lego Universe on the stairs the day AFTER the marathon?  Answer:  Because it's just not funny enough already to watch you go down them.  Who knew I worked my quads that much?  I thought that because my effort was so easy, I'd escape the lactic acid build up. But I did keep an 8 minute pace (which is a good race pace for me) for about 15 miles. I guess that was enough.  Glad I could give them a laugh.

I aggressively stretched hips, quads, glutes, hams last night and again this morning.  both yesterday and today, I ran super slow, very enjoyable 2 miles.  But I could feel my back/hip/bum stiff and inflexible.  It did feel like it was the right thing to try to run a bit though.  Get thing moving.  Came home, did 400 sit ups, 40 push ups, and several sun salutations.  Here's a great story.  I got pulled over for speeding yesterday (I know, if I could run as fast as I drive....).   The officer came over to the car to get my lisence/registration....saw the marathon medal on the passenger seat and asked me if I ran on Saturday, how I'd placed (I told him 11th in my division) and then he just looked ahead, patted my roof and said "have a nice day, slow down."   I didn't realize you could run a marathon in lieu of traffic school.  Awesome.