Week Update: Training and 18 mile long run.

The marathon training is in sort of a phase where the weekday runs don't seem as long anymore, in fact some are shorter, and the weekend runs are really stepping up the distance.

After the 1/2 marathon the only pain was some sort of weird foot soreness. I chalked it up to 8 month old running shoes and sprung for a pair of Asics Gel Kayano runners. These things are awesome. My Wednesday run was the first on these and being st. Patrick's day I knocked out a few miles quickly and then biked to the restaurant/bar.

Thursdays run was 6 miles, and most of my pains were pretty minor by now. I snowboarded on Saturday and had a pretty hard crash that seems to have messed up my shoulder a bit as well as given me some random knee and hip soreness. This didn't keep me from running 18 miles on Sunday. This was the longest run of my life. By the end I felt ok but my feet were pretty sore. The rest of the day I felt fine, but by bed time I was noticing a pretty continuous pain at the base of my left toe. This hasn't gone away. I can't isolate it either, I can push all over with my thumbs and now increase the soreness. I'm hoping it's just some pressure or muscle pain and not something worse. Tomorrow and Wednesday are supposed to be crappy days in Denver so I'll probably just work out on the bike trainer. That will give me 4 days of recovery without further impact training.

So far I'm happy with my shoes, the other random foot pains have gone away. I ate 4 gels during my 18 miles and felt good on energy, my belt worked well and didn't rub or bother me much, I stashed extra water on the route and ended up using about 32 ounces. My weight post run was 191.5.
The 20 miles next week will tell me a lot and I'm looking forward to it in a sick way, I just hope this pain/soreness in my feet goes away.