The RunRunLive 3.0 Podcast Episode 3-288 – Yo Pal Hal Elrod and the Miracle Morning
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Recovery tips after a marathon - http://www.runrunlive.com/9-steps-to-recovery-after-a-marathon
Outro:
That’s it my friends you have daintily peeled back the page on another running year with me.  So what’s next ?  Well, my friends, next is not running for a month.  May is going to be my recovery month.  I’m doing some yoga, some swimming, some core and some biking.  
My back is sore, my ankle has a tweaked ligament of some sort and I’ve got some pain and numbeness in my left knee.  All of this doesn’t prevent me from running but it has limited my ability to train and race at the level of quality that I’d like.  So we’ll give it some time and see if we can get healthy before anything else. 
I’ve been reading, as usual.  I read Chrissie Wellington’s book and it was interesting because I remember that Kona she won while all bruised up from a bike crash.  Mostly I took away that she is bat-shit crazy.  Not that I have anything against crazy people – I just don’t want to be trapped in an elevator with them.  
I also read The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.  I had listened to her other book Pigs in Heaven a few years ago and really liked it.  She is an incredible writer.  I very much enjoy her prose. 
I’m working through a business book I’m quite enjoying called Die Empty by Todd Henry who does the Accidental Creative podcast.  Really good stuff for people who have to deliver creative work.  
Of course I read Hal’s book.  He sounded a little offended when I told him I read it in one airplane ride.  Well, you know, I read some books for the prose and others for the content and adjust my reading speed accordingly.  
Last but not least I was looking through the Kindle store and saw that all the Edgar Rice Burroughs books were free.  So I downloaded a bunch and read Tarzan of the Apes!  This was an enjoyable surprise.  What a bodice ripper!  To see the original work that spawned a pop cultural hero was awesome.  
It is a very engaging story.  Quite awfully racist and classist at times but if you can laugh that stuff off it’s quite entertaining.  I think I’ll move on the some of his Mars books next. 
What’s my plan going forward?  No running in May,  then see how I feel and maybe train to run a qualifier at end of summer because I’ve got some unfinished business. 
Cheers, 
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