Eluding Tuonela

Wednesday, the morning of the marathon +3 days. 

On Monday, my legs were totally destroyed, could barely walk at all. Due to unfortunate scheduling with car maintenance, I ended up walking 7km in 2,5 hours which in the hindsight maybe wasn't the greatest idea. Yesterday I felt much better already and went for an easy half-hour walk (covering 3,6k). Today I noticed that the pain in my legs was so small that I didn't even register it when getting out of bed. Somewhat unexpected but very welcome!

I still have some quite bad bloody scarring from chafing in my inner thighs and few smaller spots around various parts of my body. Purchased a tube of moisturizer gel to relieve the pain and it has helped a bit. Overall, I'm pretty confident that I'll be running again before the end of the week and that feels pretty good.

It feels weird not to have any preplanned activities on my calendar. I don't really know what I want to do with the next couple of weeks, but I really want to try the 4x4x48 Goggins Challenge which is to run 4 miles (6,4km) every 4 hours for 48 hours. I will be doing that as soon as I feel my body is ready for it. I definitely don't want to hurt myself trying so I'm not in any hurry to get there.