Apr 23 - 29

Here's last week's summary.

Mon: 5M easy
Tue: 7.5 easy
Wed: DNR
Thu: 8M easy w/ 5 strides after the run.
Fri: 7.5M easy w/ 5 x 20sec strides toward the end of the run.
Sat: 5.2M easy
Sun: Trolley Run 4M - 20:55 (PR), 19th Place; 7M total

Weekly Total: 40 miles on 6 runs/6 days
This was the 2nd week of recovery from Boston Marathon. The week consisted of easy running, one rest day and a 4-mile race that resulted in a PR.  My legs feel recovered from the marathon; however, I will take this coming week as the 3rd and final marathon recovery week.

Wrapping up Boston Recovery

It's been a pretty good week of recovery.  Easy runs on Mon-Tue, a rest day on Wed, followed by easy runs yesterday and today.  I did 5 x 20 seconds strides toward the end of my run today to remind the legs how to run fast and keep them from being lazy.

On Sunday, I will run the Trolley Run, a "fast" point-to-point 4-miler in Kansas City.  Check out last year's results, the winner ran sub-18 minutes with 14 runners going sub-20 minutes.   The legs feel good and recovered (whether they really are may be a different story), so I'm looking forward to putting in a good effort and hopefully, a good time.

Last week the Fort Leavenworth Lamp newspaper interviewed me after my accomplishment at Boston.  Below is a picture of the article.  You can read the article here or click on the picture.

Here are some photos from the marathon.  

Go ARMY!!!

CITGO sign = almost to the finish!

Louder!!!

Boston crowd is AMAZING!!!

I beat the Boston heat!