{"id":16448,"date":"2017-09-17T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2017-09-17T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T15:25:10","slug":"recovery-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=16448","title":{"rendered":"Recovery – The New Normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a strange thing\u00a0to wake up and NOT head out to some state park to run many, many loops.<\/p>\n

It’s a strange thing to wake up and NOT stuff my face with peanut butter cookies as a caloric “base” for a marathon run. Though to be fair, I did still wake up and stuff my face with a peanut butter smothered English muffin (perhaps one of the few things I’m really pro-English about).<\/p>\n

It’s a strange thing that despite NOT having a race today, I did still get up and go out for a run. It was a slow, recovery run, but a bit necessary if only to “taper” from the mileage of the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

One can’t simply go “cold turkey” after a series of marathons. Not only has my body adjusted to the mileage but so too has my metabolism. Without the need to burn some calories, I think I’m more likely to see that infernal bathroom scale spin higher and higher… and I really don’t need any help making that stupid thing creep up in poundage and up my depression. I’m perfectly capable of screwing up my weight on my own.<\/p>\n

And so I try for a run to keep the body and mind focused on the notion that though the multi-day series of races are crazy, they are kinda what I do. They are the new normal. Maybe not *every* week or even every month, but it is something I like being able to go do. I like being able to run a marathon and if I’m careful about what I eat and how I move, I can go run another one the next day… and the day after that… and the day after that. Life is a marathon and thus I’m hoping it helps to be able to run ACTUAL marathons. We’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n

The other recovery aspect is that this is the first time I’ve been home since Hurricane Irma stormed through. There’s still some damage and debris; there’s a bit of obstacle course maneuvering necessary on the sidewalks. But given what others endured, we kinda lucked out. It was a stressful, tough situation to be sure; I think Mom is going through the PTSD thing given how nerve wracking the preparation and anticipation were. I feel doubly bad that I wasn’t here to help.<\/p>\n

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But, ya know, there was running to be done. There’s always running to be done. I wonder if that’s why *I* am a strange thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a strange thing\u00a0to wake up and NOT head out to some state park to run many, many loops. It’s a strange thing to wake up and NOT stuff my face with peanut butter cookies as a caloric “base” for a marathon run. Though to be fair, I did still wake up and stuff my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}