Step 1 after the season was over is RECOVERY, both mentally and physically. Both are taking a lot longer than I had hoped but the biggest thing is to be patient right now and not to rush things on either side. After the Milwaukee Marathon, I took 3 weeks off from running and now have run about 5 times over the past week. Every run has felt like I've been pulling a sled. The legs are still heavy and just trying to pull through the runs now since that marathon.
Step 2 I guess would be setting a few goals for next year. I don’t really know what to expect in Hawaii: the weather, the course, the competition, I know it will be a much more intense experience than anything I’ve come up against yet. Not sure I can fairly set goals for myself right now. It’s still a little close to the season and still feeling slightly mentally tired yet so I need to step back a little more, then come back to re-establish what I feel like I can do. What I am really excited about is that I can set up my training plan for the year with proper training cycles and rest cycles to reach farther than what I have for the past 4 years in essentially training as much as possible during med school and intern year. For most of the training time, I was limited to one day off per week. That day became my long workout and the rest was filled in from there as I went, largely on the fly. Hopefully the structure will help me to be a little fresher in & out of training this year.
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