So said the guy giving me a massage last night, about my marathon training at this point. We were discussing the aches and pains I am having, and the fact that I haven’t run since Monday, which is more days off in a row than I’ve had in a year. He said that’s what his coach used to tell him, as he tapered before the big day. I’m not really sure why it means what it means, but I take it to mean there’s not a whole lot more I can do. That feeling I have, like I haven’t run in weeks, and might have forgotten how to run period, much less 26 miles, is not to be listened to. <\/p>\n
The massage was terrific – a little painful, but it did wonders for getting me loose, and figuring out some trouble spots I should work on stretching in the next week. It was a (very thoughtful) gift from Aimee, and I chose to redeem it with the folks at Massage Therapy Works<\/a> in Davis Square, upstairs from Jimmy Tingle<\/a> (it always comes back to the Tingles, no?). I feel well-prepared for the marathon, and I hope the pains I’m feeling now will fade away in the next week or so. I also hope I take it easy in the Somerville Homeless Coalition Race<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So said the guy giving me a massage last night, about my marathon training at this point. We were discussing the aches and pains I am having, and the fact that I haven’t run since Monday, which is more days off in a row than I’ve had in a year. He said that’s what his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}