![]() ![]() After this run I was so excited and ready to run. This run made me feel so confident and ready to run the marathon since I felt like I wasn’t running as fast or as well as I was a few years ago. It wasn’t a hundred percent but it was a great improvement and continued back into my training and running my long runs which were now up to 18 and 20 miles.Ībout two weeks before the marathon I went out for an easy 7 mile run and I felt fantastic. All of these things helped to make it feel better. During this break I iced my foot and calf, wrapped my foot and calf, stretched, used a foam roller and used cold laser on the areas. I took almost two weeks off from training to let my calf and foot heel up a little bit. The calf was so tight and uncomfortable that I could barely walk up and down stairs. So not only did I have foot pain but also calf pain. Later on in my training I had quite a bit of foot pain which made it uncomfortable every time I took a step which then also altered my gait and caused spasm and a lot of pain in my right calf. To help get back on track I increased the frequency of chiropractic adjustments and I had a few treatments on the decompression table which really helped. Initially when I started increasing my mileage I was having some lower back pain and left hip and leg pain and some numbness which was unusual for me because I rarely have lower back pain. Although, during my training I did encounter several different pains besides the normal muscles aches. The change in diet and energy levels really helped me to be able to spur on my training. Changing to the Vegan diet also helped me to lose a little bit of weight that I had put on over the cold winter months where I had been more sedentary than I had been in years. My energy increased so much that I was much more awake and alert in the mornings which was a change for me as I am not a morning person. ![]() Almost immediately after altering my diet to a plant based diet I noticed a change in my energy levels. The biggest change was that I altered my diet to a Vegan diet for several months starting in May of 2014. I made a few changes while beginning my training for the marathon. Running is something that I have always had a passion for and it is an amazing form of exercise. I knew it might be harder than a few years ago since I am a few years older and my body was pretty beat up after the last full marathon that I ran. It requires much sacrifice in both your time, body, and energy. I knew going into it that it was going to be a challenge. New York City is one of favorite cities and the opportunity to be able to run through all five of the Burroughs was amazing to me. ![]() I hadn’t run a full marathon since October of 2011, but when I got accepted into the New York City Marathon it was a no brainer that I was going to run and train for it. ![]()
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