In order to test the water so to speak, I jogged through the rain (it’s a good thing that this storm held off over the weekend or it would have been one wet and chilly race) at an extremely slow pace from the Sheraton hotel I was staying at down to Independence Mall by way of the City Hall building. Once at the mall, I jogged around the Liberty Bell Center, Independence Hall, Washington Square (which houses the Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier), back up to the Christ Church Burial Ground (the site of Benjamin Franklin’s grave), then around the United Sates Mint and over to China Town before heading back to the Sheraton. Needless to say, this was an historical recovery run. I took the entire 7.5 miles of this workout at a slow pace; that is, it took jogging a couple of miles before the stiffness in my legs began to subside. Also, the bad news is that that soreness in my left foot still persists; however, the good news is that the soreness is no worse today than before the marathon.
Finally, I headed down to the hotel’s basement gym for my non-running workout which consisted of 200 sit-ups, 30 push-ups, 170 curls (40, 30, 20 lbs) and 20 (50 lbs) reverse curls. | 