I am now a week out from the Running From An Angel 50 Miler, and while I don’t suffer from any illusions that I am completely recovered I do feel pretty good. I have gone for a couple of walks and runs with only mild soreness, spent a few hours snowshoeing, and an hour and a half shoveling snow since I got home.

I also got my first professional massage a few days after returning home, and the massage therapist (Michael Gage from Maine Sports Massage) couldn’t believe that I had just run 50 miles. My muscles were all where they were supposed to be and were only mildly tight.

I think that I can attribute that to 2 things. First, I was well trained for the race. I also think that 2 products that I made use of after the race helped aid my recovery and have made the past week much more pleasant than it otherwise might have been.
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