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So I tackled another milestone yesterday on my marathon journey. The achievement? 16 miles. \u00a0I found this run so much easier than the last 15 miler I did. My chest injury seems to be completely healed now, which helped, and I just felt like I had a lot more energy.<\/p>\n
Maybe it was the Sharkies? Normally I stick with fruit juices and dates when I run, but I found these sport chews at a health food store and I wanted to try them. I found them really easy to eat while running and they tasted awesome. Plus, it\u2019s great to know that they\u2019re healthy, organic, and all that good stuff. Yada, yada.<\/p>\n
I find it really hard to exercise away from home, but it\u2019s nice that where my sister lives they have a lot of biking\/running trails. It was fun for me to plan my route and explore the area. So beautiful here…<\/p>\n
And this time I remembered to put Vaseline between my toes and walaaa! Not a single blister. Success.<\/p>\n
Preventing blisters was yesterday\u2019s lesson learned, but today\u2019s lesson learned is not to leave the laptop up when you have to get up for a minute. Sisters can invade the keyboard and take over. I found this on my draft copy of my post when I came back\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cMy faithful sister allowed me to go for this run, taking care of the kids while I was reckless and abandoned them all, hurried on to my daily pursuit of working out.<\/em><\/p>\n My sister really is amazing \u2013 two kids and a busy life I SURE hope I\u2019m like her one day \u2013 until then, I\u2019ll have a ton of fun being me cause I\u2019m pretty amazing.<\/em><\/p>\n Have I told you how wonderful I am?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Ha. It amused me\u2026so I kept it up. Serves her right if she\u2019s mortified. But knowing her she\u2019ll just laugh. Well, it made me giggle.<\/p>\n But what really makes me happy is the fact I\u2019m not sore today. The secret to that is the ice bath I always take after a double digit run. It sounds horrible\u2026and it is. But it\u2019s a small price to pay for eliminating soreness and feeling great the next day. I never used to take them and didn\u2019t believe a little cold water could possibly get rid of the horrible soreness that I\u2019d feel for at least two days after a hard run. But then I tried it just for kicks and was shocked how much it helps. Now I always<\/em> take them, despite the dreadfulness of being cold. It’s soooo worth it.<\/p>\n How to Take an Ice Bath:<\/span><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fill the tub with an inch or two of warm water. Otherwise it\u2019s way too hard to get in. Then just add cold water on full blast up to your waist.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To make it a real ice bath you can add a tray or two of ice cubes. I\u2019m lazy and so I\u2019ve never done that\u2026the water should be 54 to 60 degrees for the technical people who care to know. I don\u2019t care, which means I\u2019m not technical. Anywhoo\u2026<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wear layers of old sweatshirts over your swim shorts. At least half of you can be warm.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stay in the water at least 10 minutes. You can do it. I believe in you.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Drink something hot or slurp some soup. I can\u2019t survive the cold without this. I\u2019m also freaked out about being cold, I just hate it. Believe me, if I can do, you can too!<\/p>\n Do you have any running secrets or something that helps post-workout soreness?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I tackled another milestone yesterday on my marathon journey. The achievement? 16 miles. \u00a0I found this run so much easier than the last 15 miler I did. My chest injury seems to be completely healed now, which helped, and I just felt like I had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,74],"tags":[115,117,50,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}