I don't think that I'll run today. Legs are pretty sore, but I will try to walk around some. They don't seem as bad as the one other time I ran a half-marathon to my utmost in 2007, but then I still haven't tried stairs or any sort of downhill yet. That could be painful.
I wrote a longer report about yesterday's race and put it in the Races forum, http://thebarefootrunners.org/threads/half-marathon-in-philadelphia.17476/
I hope that tomorrow I can get out and run a few easy miles. Easy mile might be all that I'm capable of for a bit here. Usually this year when I've woken up I would be thinking about the excitement of going for a run. Not today, not now, although last evening I began thinking about what has gone well this year and what went wrong and how hopefully I can improve more again.
Tristan, oh yes, I understand the big city events will be crowded some, but I suppose the crowded nature of it yesterday took me by surprise because I was used to how the crowds seemed from 2007 to 2010. In 2007 when I raced it hard, there were around 11000 total runners. Yesterday's had about 30,000. That, combined with how I ran purposefully without giving up on the effort, meant that the experience was a whole new level.
Still, it's a wonderful course and a fine event, but I do fear that it has gotten a bit too large. It was so crowded that this year it was hard to take notice of the crowd support, but maybe that was also because of how focused I was on the goal and how that meant I had to focus on navigating the crowd.
Good runs to all.
I wrote a longer report about yesterday's race and put it in the Races forum, http://thebarefootrunners.org/threads/half-marathon-in-philadelphia.17476/
I hope that tomorrow I can get out and run a few easy miles. Easy mile might be all that I'm capable of for a bit here. Usually this year when I've woken up I would be thinking about the excitement of going for a run. Not today, not now, although last evening I began thinking about what has gone well this year and what went wrong and how hopefully I can improve more again.
Tristan, oh yes, I understand the big city events will be crowded some, but I suppose the crowded nature of it yesterday took me by surprise because I was used to how the crowds seemed from 2007 to 2010. In 2007 when I raced it hard, there were around 11000 total runners. Yesterday's had about 30,000. That, combined with how I ran purposefully without giving up on the effort, meant that the experience was a whole new level.
Still, it's a wonderful course and a fine event, but I do fear that it has gotten a bit too large. It was so crowded that this year it was hard to take notice of the crowd support, but maybe that was also because of how focused I was on the goal and how that meant I had to focus on navigating the crowd.
Good runs to all.