I’ll start with the marathon recovery process. After the run I felt reasonably awful but not as bad as after Redwoods. I slept good after the marathon, shocking I know, and the body felt tired but not broken.

I did a little bit of pre-planning on Saturday in the anticipation of being completely incapacitated following the run. I wasn’t sure I would be able to move much so I got enough food to get me through Monday, I figured I would be able to crawl back and forth to the fridge. On Monday morning I made my pot of coffee and felt pretty darn good. The biggest problem I had was that my feet thought I weighed too much, each time I stepped they screamed at me…. other than that I felt pretty good. The test for me is always if I can do a squat without the aid of anything and then if I can stand back up. After my first marathon it took 2-3 days to get there, after Athens it was about the same. After Redwoods I was able to perform an unaided squat the morning after with some pain but I was successful. After NYC no problem doing the squat on the Monday morning - now I didn’t feel great but not bad, compared to what I was expecting.

Monday I didn’t leave the apartment, didn’t put shoes on, I just showered, worked, read and stayed off my feet. I should have probably gotten that massage but working seemed like a good way to spend my time. Tuesday was much of the same, except I did sneak out of the house to get some more food as the stock was low. Wednesday I ventured out about 5 blocks from the house and put some real shoes on as opposed to sandals… something is not right on the top of my left foot but other than that I feel pretty good… especially cause I don’t have a marathon to run for at least another 6-10 months!

I’m not a big TV junkie to say the least and have managed to live pretty contently for the last 5 years without cable TV for the most part.. there have been short periods of time where it has been around and given the amount of hotels I stay in I do get cable a few nights a month at the least. Here in NYC I have gone without a TV altogether and I’m quite enjoying it. You see if I have a TV I watch it and then I get angry that I wasted my time sitting in-front of the TV when I could have been doing something productive (that’s just for me, I don’t really have thoughts on others and their TV habits or lack thereof). What I do miss though is the news. Well Mr. Internet has solved my problems, MSNBC now has the nightly news available online. So I have just finished watching the news and I am now ready to head to bed.

Now if the CBC would just start doing this I would be golden and living in the US would seem even more civil .

Things are going to get quite quiet around here on the blog for the next 3 weeks, I don’t have anything interesting going on that I plan to write about and I have a lot of work to get through. I do hope to get some turns in shortly and come the new year we will be getting trained up for the Haute Route, trying out new Alpine Touring gear, and posting neat tid bits about this trip.

Thanks again for the support and I’m glad everyone enjoyed the post on the NYC marathon.

cheers.