Marathon Postscript
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
After a disastrous non-bike-ride on Thursday and travel day on Friday (leaving my house at 5:30 a.m. and finally arriving in New Mexico at 7:30 p.m.), I was looking forward to an easy-breezy relaxing weekend in Santa Fe with only a 10-mile run to fit in on Saturday before the wedding.
On Saturday morning, we got up and had breakfast at Tia Sophia's, a new Mexican-style greasy spoon where, apparently, the breakfast burrito was invented. Then, for me, it was time to mull over the guide books and mags in our casita and take a brief nap while my Chief-of-Stuff went off to perform wedding party duties and my running partner, Mel, got a pedicure.
I couldn't sleep though; I was too antsy. I had taken the previous week after the Green Bay Marathon off of running, and I was anxious to get back out on the pavement. In addition, to me, there is no better way to explore a new city/place than by running. I simply love it. Winding your way through foreign streets and past never-before seen views always makes the miles fly by and gets you intimately in touch with a place the way you just can't get in other ways. Even when you're out walking around and touring/shopping, it's usually with a purpose, so you miss things. That's why some of my favorite vacation memories are of runs I've taken -- in Florence (Italy...not Wisconsin, for the Yoopers and Wisconsinites reading this), Dublin, the mountains of Colorado, and so many other places.
I had ten miles to get in, but Melanie had just done the same marathon last weekend and I figured she wouldn't be up for the whole ten, so I decided to try and get half my miles in on the treadmill in the workout room first. I got through three...and not easily. I'm not sure if it was a result of the altitude (Santa Fe is nearly 7,000 feet above sea level), my hanging-on cold, or just a general blah from after the marathon. And, at mile 2.5, my marathon pains started acting up again -- piercing pain in my patella and my hip, and a sore ankle. All on the same leg (not sure if that's a blessing or a curse).
By that time, Mel was ready to go. We started up West Alameda street, as suggested by the front desk attendant at the hotel, at a nice and easy 10 minute-mile pace -- a pace that normally feels god-awful slow, but that I was now struggling to maintain. The road was a slight incline the entire way, but that alone shouldn't have caused all of the huffing, puffing, and forced shuffling that was going on over on my side of the trail.
We ran for a mile, and then I called it quits. I'm starting to learn that there are certain things that you just can't "run through." This is a big revelation. Sideaches? Yes. Shooting pain in hip? No. Knee soreness from multiple surgeries? Yes. Knife-sharp patella pain? No. It's a delicate line, but once crossed, can cause semi-permanent damage -- damage I just can't afford right now.
So, we walked instead. We walked and talked and talked and walked until our fingers were little sausages and we had covered two more miles heading out of town and up into the hills of Santa Fe. And it was so much fun. I was aching to run, still, but at least we got out and about and covered six miles of run/walking.
Three days later, my hip is finally back to the point where I can sleep on that side without it hurting, and can walk up stairs normally (Grandmas -- I have newfound sympathy for both of you!). That, from only four miles. Not good. So, I'm readjusting my schedule a little bit. No more running for a while. A couple weeks at least. Maybe a month. I will spend the extra time on the bike (which is where my efforts need to be anyway), and might even buy this little contraption to try, recommended to me by a friend who ensured that, although I will "look ridiculous," it works. Apparently, regardless of if you view a marathon as just a part of a larger training plan or a pinnacle event, it still takes a toll on your body. Especially, probably, if you do what I did and attempt to run it hard. I know this now.
Sunday, post-wedding, we did a lot of eating and walking around and drinking and walking around and eating some more. A couple more days in Santa Fe would've been great. If nothing else, it'll be a great place to get back to and cover all that we didn't this time.
Here is Melanie and me in Santa Fe with what looks to be the original IronWoman:
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