Post 50K recovery

Treadmill: 0.3 miles in 5 mins, 0 incline
Elliptical: ?? miles in 15 mins, 0 climb and 0 resistance
Stretch: 15 mins of mostly being splayed out on the floor too tired.

I did want to run, and since my legs and feet seemed OK I was all for it. But I didn't want to run outdoors--sleet and rain overnight, the benefit of a soft deck, and the option to stop immediately was too good to turn down.

My first fear was that the blister on the medial side of my left foot would hurt too much, but in reality it was pain along the lateral side of my right foot that stopped me. I could walk in my slides or barefoot, but my running shoes hurt it, even just to walk. It was the orthotic! It had hurt on the trails, but not consistently. But it did hurt. And it still hurt today. So off the tready, over to the elliptical nearest DH.

Even that sucked. A woman a few ellipticals away was rocking fast intervals, but I just slowly plugged away with no resistance or incline. All I wanted was to flush out the legs, get them moving, and raise the heartrate. I barely broke a sweat. Bored after 15 mins, I hopped off to stretch out.

All day I was slow, but functioning and awake. We took a 2hr drive to Jeff City to meet Sugar, that did wonders for my legs! And not good wonders.

But really my problem is my stomach. Food goes down and stays down, but doesn't settle in nicely at all. I eat because I know I need it to rebuild and recover, and I've yet to throw it up so I have confidence that I'll hang on to whatever I take. But uh it's awful.

While shopping for Powerbars, I re-read the label and found it says "Oat Bran (contains wheat)". Say WHAT? I held off on buying them until I could read more. Turns out that it's more of a potential cross-contamination issue. And what if it did contain some wheat? I only eat these on super long runs and they don't seem to be bothering me.

Or are they? These symptoms don't match for me--I don't have cramps, pains, and the like. Besides, if eating 1-2 of the bars helped me finish a race like this, I think I'd be able to say "yeah go ahead and eat them". I think it's a fair trade. But then again I don't think these bars are my problem.

What is? Time for some research.