Decided to shuffle the schedule once again -- the Monday run gets pushed to Tuesday, with another recovery run moved into the Monday slot. The Wednesday sorta-long run gets moved to Thursday. Friday is still the off day. We'll see how that works, and if my legs are able to snap back between a Thursday night 10-miler and a Saturday dawn 16-miler. Might end up doing 19 miles back to back some weeks -- 9 on Tuesday, 10 on Wednesday -- or might go back to the Monday-Wednesday split. Anyway, peripherally connected to all that, did four miles of recovery on the TM. Could have done it around noon when it was cloudy, windy and (relatively) cool -- about 90. But I didn't, and by 5 p.m., when we went to see my brother in the hospital, it was back up to 100 degrees. Scott's doing better, but seems to be quite subdued after getting zapped (zapping does tend to do that). Hopefully he'll be discharged by midweek. The legs were a little bit rubbery after yesterday's 15.6, but no real pain. Certainly not as bad as yesterday -- I tried to get out of bed during my post-run nap, and the left hamstring cramped up massively, even worse than during the marathon. I was able to push my knee back out straight which got the cramp to subside, and went back to bed for another two hours' snooze time or so. There was a new twinge tonight, though -- after about a mile, my left heel began to hurt, kind of an intermittent, stabbing type discomfort. I shifted my stride a little bit and it soon went away. Kinda reminded me of the Sever's disease I had as a kid, although not exactly. Is it due to shoes that need to be replaced? Possibly. I bought this pair of shoes in January; not sure how many miles they have, but quite a few. I need to work in a couple more new pairs in the next 2 months, for sure. | 