October 22, 2012
Detraining Guilt
It’s been over a week since my back-to-back marathons and I’m feeling very guilty. I’m guilty of enjoying my detraining too much!
The wear on my body after the two full marathons was much worse than what I have experienced in the past. Among other extreme pains, I was unable to use my right hip flexor for over a day. I had to lift my right leg with my arm to get into my car! So, after 18 weeks of training and races it was finally time to recover and “detrain.”
I did some unthinkable things during detraining this week:
- I’m drank caffeine as hot chocolate and coke
- I’ve eaten McDonalds food… twice!
- I haven’t had salad in over a week
- I’ve eaten way too much food, and unhealthy food
- I drank beer after Wednesday’s run!
- Other than a little run Wednesday and a few stairs I haven’t done any exercise since the marathon
With all these indiscretions, I’m feeling very guilty. I feel like I’m gaining weight, getting fat and losing strength and speed.
But, I should know better than to rush back into training. I tried running Wednesday and it was very uncomfortable. After the run I was hurting and craving poutine. We went to the local Jack Astor’s and it happened to have an Oktoberfest Party! Needless to say, I wasn’t in pain at the end of the night. Quite a nice way to celebrate my marathon successes.
When I said “a few stairs” a couple lines ago, that’s not entirely true. I did the CN Tower Stair Climb on Sunday, October 21. It was my 6th time doing the climb. It’s always an intimidating climb with 144 floors (or 1776 stairs). I was very happy to finish in 22:54, 19 seconds better than last year. I definitely wasn’t feeling 100% though. Not the best recovery, but this was planned a long time ago.
On a funny note, a registration error had my friend listed with my last name. A little too soon we both though.
I plan to get back to genuine training soon. My next big goal is to beat 1:55 at the Walt Disney World Half-Marathon. I’m doing the whole Goofy Challenge again, but the Marathon is jokes so I’m not worried. I really want to be under 1:55 for the half because that will get me into a corral for Around The Bay. A training program is already printed and staring at me, but I’ll start on it when I feel 100%.
Until I hit that track again… guilt.