October 22, 2012

Detraining Guilt

by pyrad
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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.

Celebrating my marathon successes an Oktoberfest party in Mississauga. I’m wearing my Scotiabank Toronto Watefront Marathon and Bank of America Chicago Marathon medals and my Virgin London Marathon jacket.

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.


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