Recovery

Last week was spent in recovery mode, as I became re-acquainted with every muscle in my legs and their various complaints about what they had just experienced. Fortunately, it wasn't as bad as I'd imagined, and I feel like some of my ramp-up weeks created more soreness than this. Usually, I will be posting the upcoming week's workouts, but as I'm just getting started on here, things are a little messy for now. I kind of tried to follow my taper week from my training plan, but in reverse (does that make sense?). Here's a look at what I did (it wasn't much):

M (9/1) - Traveled home.
T (9/2) - Spent the day at the US Open. Planned on getting a run in but the day session lasted forever. Not complaining. Does climbing lots of stairs at the stadium count as cross-training?
W (9/3) - 3 easy miles (avg pace 9:53). I was a little nervous, as it was my first time running again. My legs felt great! A little sluggish at the start, but then they found their happy rhythm. I could have gone further, but didn't want to push it.
R (9/4) - 45 mins on the elliptical. Used the interval training course and tried to push it pretty hard. Again, I am surprised at how strong my lungs have become since I've started running seriously.
F (9/5) - 1 mile warm-up, 4x400 @ 8:18 (200 recovery), 2x200 @ 7:53 (100), 1 mile cooldown (4 miles total). It was nice to be a little speedy again. Again, wanted to run more but had to go to work. Also did my core workout.
Sa (9/6) - Rest day. Had a bit of a sore ankle after I missed a step in Penn Station trying to catch a train to Pete's parents' place in LI. How I can survive training for and running a half sans-injury only to bust on a routine set of stairs, I'll never know. Anyways, decided to avoid running for the weekend.
Su (9/7) - 20 mins elliptical to warm-up, 45 min spin class (awesome), core workout. Also had 2 softball games at night so did several sprints to 1st (happily beat out a few throws with my newly developed speed).

Even though I didn't get much running in (only 7 miles total), I feel like I got some quality workouts. My ankle is feeling MUCH better and I'm very excited about this coming week. I'll save that for the next post as to not bore you all at once.