{"id":432,"date":"2015-10-12T10:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2015-10-12T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:26:55","slug":"a-recovery-run-to-start-a-new-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"A recovery run to start a new chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well it happened, with a sub-4 hour marathon, now I want to try and get greedy. Next up is Philly, I have almost 6 weeks until the race. I think that’s enough time to knock a further 20 seconds or so off per mile. That’s a little over 8 minutes over the course of a marathon, or sub 3:45! I figure give it a try, why not. Then for Roxbury, given the difficulty of the course, and usually the conditions, we (and by we, I mean me and my friend Debbie who gave me the \u00a0pace bracelet that got me a sub-4) have decided on shooting for sub-4 again, conditions permitting. That’s the trick there, will conditions allow it? We will see, ahh Decemeber in the Northeast!
\nMeanwhile, 6 weeks is a good amount of time, but not a long time, and my legs were more sore than I think they should have been today, so I went out and put in a couple miles to loosen up the muscles and get some of soreness flushed out. I was much faster than I anticipated, but my left knee if feeling a bit of a tweak that feels like IT band flaring up. I’ve never had problems with my left knee, so we’ll see how it goes. I still have an IT band isolation brace if I need one. But seriously, for second day after a marathon, I was fast for my usual pace, even if it was only 2 miles, check it out<\/a>!
\nWell, I have to go play taxi driver, so I’ll catch you all on the flip side! I’m still not coming down from my performance on Saturday. I need to stay up from this through Philly. In the meantime, have fun, keep running and remember, if Gil can run, then so can you!<\/p>\n

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