Recovering

Dear fellow runners and people managing diabetes: It is now ten days since the ten-miler, and I feel good. My recovery runs have been fine, following the advice of Runner's World magazine so I am running four days a week, but using slow durations runs (20, 30, 20, 30, 30, 40, 45, 50 minutes over two weeks) as my guidepost. I have not been running for distance or speed, just easing in and listening to my body. The body has not complained too loudly, and the soreness I feel is not race related, at least that's what I think. I will begin building back slowly and maintaining my running, but I might mix in some combination trail biking and trail running to spice things up. I definitely feel better when I run on softer surfaces. Looking forward to watching the live streaming of Monday's Boston Marathon. I'd like to see Ryan Hall win in the men's division. He is awesome. Sorry that Kara Goucher is not running this year, but maybe we'll see her again in Boston before too long.