I'm finally starting not to feel so sore. The day after the marathon I was extremely sore and could barely walk. I was having a hard time even standing up. Monday was a tad better but stairs, more specifically going down them, became the bane of my existence...maybe not that dramatic. Each time I went down a little incline or a flight of steps I'd wince and moan in pain. Tuesday the pain became a little more tolerale and I was hobbling much less than the previous days. Now today I'm feeling much better and hardly hobbling at all. I think I'm going to go for a short a really short run tomorrow probably not more than a couple of miles so I can test out the legs. I've actually been trying to walk at least 20-30 minutes the last few days so my legs don't freeze up on me.

As part of my recovery I need to restore my glycogen stores, so I have to eat bread, rice, potatoes, pasta to replenish my reserves. Yesterday I ate pasta twice in one day, which I usually don't ever do. For lunch I went out with some coworkers and had some great rigatoni topped with a bolognese sauce accompanied by an Italian sausage. For appetizers I had a cup of minestrone and about 4 or 5 "slices" of garlic bread. Later that night, I went to Whole Foods and picked up some angel hair pasta cooked with roma tomatoes and seasoned with salt, pepper, basil, and some olive oil. I then went home and cooked some more angel hair pasta and made the same thing but with different herbs. I also grilled chicken breasts seasoned with "cajun" spices, lime, sesame seed oil, and a mexican hot sauce called tapatio. I brought that with me to work today along with some wild brown rice, spinach, edamame, and broccoli. Even though that all sounds like a lot of food, I actually haven't been eating all that much lately because I've been inactive from trying to recover from the marathon. I'm actually really hungry right now. I just ate a plum from my backyard. We have a few fruit trees in the backyard of the house I live in and currently the plum tree is fruiting(?). These are about the sweetest plums I've ever had. I brought some in for my buddy Jon since he likes plums.

I think I'm going to hit up the Red Rocks shows in September. I should be able to get some time off from work to go to Colorado for a week or so. I want to do a bit of sightseeing.

There's a cool thing happening this weekend called the Choo Choo & Brew. It's a pub crawl that follows the Caltrain North from Palo Alto up to Burlingame covering seven stops. At each stop we go to a pub that's close to the station, drink, then get back on the train for the next stop. I can't wait. Well I can but I'm getting excited about it.

Speaking about getting excited. The week before the race I was really really really antsy. There wasn't a moment where I wasn't fidgeting or bouncing my leg. We had a run a couple of days before the trip up to Alaska and I was literally bouncing around before and after the run. I just wanted to get the run over and done with so I could not be so damn antsy.

It was great running the race because there were so many hot athletic girls. It made the run that much more fun.

That's all for now.

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