WORKOUT -
Elliptical at the hotel gym
60 mins
The hotel I’m staying at has a nice, large gym so I got up early to check it out and do a little shakeout workout.
Usually I do a really easy hour-long run the day after a marathon, but my hamstrings were so tight this morning that I decided to give them another day to calm down and stop being so dramatic.
I was just asked about marathon recovery and I should do a post on it soon but if you can, move around a little, like a short walk, to get the blood flowing and work out the stiffness.
You know how you feel when you’re been sitting in the same position for a long time and you get up and feel all creaky and stiff and really old? You want to avoid this by moving your body.
World’s largest mirror. I want.
Edited to Add: I just saw this Runner’s World post on marathon recovery on fitfluential’s twitter feed so go read that instead of me writing nonsense.
{Sporting my new finisher’s shirt. I didn’t think I’d like the lime green, but it’s kinda cute with black}
LAST NIGHT DATE NIGHT
Last night I met the adorable Ashley at Don Pisto’s for dinner. A reader recommended it so that’s where we went. I got really lost and was late, but Ashley still waited for my sorry heiny. How pretty is she!?
It was really interesting to hear about Ashley’s job and the whole living in a city thing. Like, where are the Walmarts?! I need to know!
And check out this skinny little blogger:
This morning Jacqueline offered to take me to the airport so I didn’t have to BART it. um, yes please. Public transportation still kinda scares me. Like if anyone gets mugged, lost or murdered, it will be me.
So I hitched a ride to the airport in her sporty little car with a pit stop at Starbucks. I think I’ve found my coffee loving match. No, actually I think Jacqueline and Kristin are star-crossed coffee lovers and should own a Starbucks together.
Thanks Jacqueline for the ride and the fruit for the plane!
Both pieces are gone already as well as a Subway sandwich. Howdy, marathon hunger.
I’m headed back home now but will have my race recap up this afternoon. for sure, totally. That or I’ll sit around and read a bunch of DON, one or the other.
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Your blog post always make me laugh out loud! Thanks for being so great.
I am actually kind of in love with the lime green. Looks really great on you!
Also, can’t wait for your race recap! I’m super jealous you got to run the NWM.
Your legs are AH MAZING
I actually like the lime green shirt.
Safe travels!
The Kidless Kronicles
Lime green would have been one of the last colors I would pick, after brown & orange, but it does look cute with the black.
Oooh I like the lime green too!
I usually teach a dance class soon after running longer races….it helps to shake things out
Love the lime green shirt with the black. Really cute skirt!
Frick. Why would you introduce me to DON? I should have never clicked on that link. There goes my afternoon.
Every day.
this is why i cant have a job. its like, HELLO THE GOSSIP ISN’T GOING TO CHECK ITSELF!
Hey never heard of DON…surprise, surprise…I kind of live under a shroom. But that Kim K. dress is horrible. She needs to get to Walmart and get herself a kitty shirt to copy your fashion finds (or gifts) and burn the black skirt.
(I think all the chocolate chip cookies I just ate went to my head or butt whatever…)
I LOVE the running skirt and the shirt…and of course the mirror.
Wish I could travel and hang with friends. 
Love my kids but I’m just needing another vaca. Enjoy this life you’re living while it lasts. 
I wonder if the Don Pisto’s recommendation was mine? I love that place. I note you didn’t say much about the dinner itself – not to your tastes?
no, it was good! i had carne asada street tacos. i just didnt take any pictures; i was too busy peppering ashley with a million tech questions.
I love my best friends all sorts, but two of them don’t drink coffee and it really causes me to question their morals and our friendship.
If I ever run a marathon (i’m thinking about it), I can almost guarantee there will be no running the next day. Maybe walking…if I’m lucky.
sierra- that is so funny you say this! i honestly look at people so strangely that dont drink coffee, as if i dont even believe it. how can one not drink coffeee??? how!?? it baffles me!
I like the lime green! Though my daughter dressing in it head to toe today was a bit much.
yeah SR Immmmmmma need the race recap. It’s like my drug of choice. Im kinda addicted. race recap? pretty please???
It’s my pleasure!!
I didn’t realize you worked out for an hour before I got there!
The only workout I accomplished was lifting a mug of coffee to my face. Ha!
P.S You are so calm, I really need to take lessons from you.
A ride to the airport and fruit for the plane? Now, that’s a friend!
LOL. You are so pretty!
It’s so nice of those girls to come out for coffee with you and then send you to the airport.
After this weekend’s marathon, I made my massage therapist friend give me a massage so I wouldn’t be hobbling and then ran three miles in the morning. That seemed to do the trick and I feel fine now.
So glad you had a good time in my homeland! And thank you as always for sharing the link. I need lots of reassurance that my opinions on insane celebs are on point. Love it.