Wow! What a rush. I'm still coming down from participating in a half marathon on Saturday and my body is most definitely still in recovery mode. I'm planning on getting my butt to the hot room this week extra time for sure to speed this little physical recovery along. From what I have heard from others, long distance running like that puts micro tears all over your little leg muscles and it takes a while for your body to recover from all that. So no running for at least a week. But yoga...game on! It is during these times where you can really notice the difference between having a yoga practice and not. I'm 100% certain that our regular yoga practice helped me and my friend Katy stay calm during the hard times in the race, maintain a calm breath throughout the whole race and recover quicker after the race.
The night of the race I could barely put weight on my right leg. But I stretched and iced and anti inflamatoried up and felt loads better Sunday and tons better today. Still pretty sore but at least I'm not all swollen and in pain like I was Saturday night. It was such an amazing accomplishment and I'm so very proud of myself and my buddy, Katy. Seriously couldn't have done it by myself. Well, I'm sure I would've but it was so much more enjoyable with a buddy. If any of you out there are thinking of doing something like this I highly suggest partaking with a friend. I feel like I know Katy on a whole new level. I can certainly understand a little more why people bond so heavily during training. While I enjoyed the race, as hard as it was, I think I might stick to triathlons and 10K's. I might think about another half marathon after training and I might train a little differently than I did this time around. Maybe I'll do another one to see if I can beat my time or something like that. Time will tell.....
Being done with the half marathon makes me feel really relieved. I feel like it was kind of a heavy weight to carry. I'm a pretty busy chickadee outside of work and yoga and training for a half marathon with all the other stuff was kind of a lot you know. I'm happy to just be practicing, studying dialogue and baking. Those things I can for sure handle. Sunday was Brett and I's 2 year anniversary. We had a nice mellow time at home with the hounds and a home cooked meal. It was very pleasant. We talked some and he told me that it has been so very cool watching me do all these things and the confidence I gain from them as well. He said with each passing accomplishment he can see a noticeable difference in my confidence. Just the other day I was studying dialogue in our meditation closet and I stopped as I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I had this profound experience of thinking I looked beautiful and felt beautiful. I think I'm on to something here with this whole Bikram yoga teacher training business. Hmmmm.....
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