Our ward had a basketball game Thursday night, so I decided to see how my body would react to a little physical activity. It was mostly a blowout, so I didn't play very much. It was nice to get out and move a little, but my legs were not back yet. Friday night is indoor soccer and I really enjoy playing with the guys from work, so I suited up and told Arturo (our coach) that I could only play here and there. He played me about 10 minutes each half. I scored on a penalty kick when the game was already out of hand. All my guys are hispanic and good soccer players. I'm the only non-spanish speaker on the team. I think my guys area always trying to help me score so I'll continue to sponsor the team. It's working. My legs felt good the entire game and I didn't have any swelling in either knee after the game. That is all good news. After school today I went for a quick 4 mile run to make sure everything is back to normal. My knee was a little sore, but I was able to run the last 1.5 miles in just over 12 minutes, which is very fast for me.
Now that my body doesn't hurt all the time, I'm starting to think that I'm a little disappointed in my performance in the race. I keep thinking that if I didn't cramp up at 16.5 that I would have finished under 5 hours easily and I would feel good about that time. I'm thinking seriously about running another one. The Utah Valley Marathon has the fastest average times of any in Utah, so I'm thinking it must be the easiest. If there is such thing as an easy marathon anyway. It's on June 11th. The other possibility would be the Deseret Morning News Marathon on July 24th. I'd rather get it over with sooner rather than later, so we'll see. Christy and Dan may run the Salt Lake Half Marathon, so I might join them for that one. It should be a good maintenance run.
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