After crossing the finish line, there were bananas, water and bagels for the runners, as well as heat sheets. And of course, how could I forget the medal...
A heat sheet- boy do they keep you warm!!
A picture of both the t-shirt and the medal everyone received
Needless to say, after finishing the Marathon I was very sore. After running/walking for such a long time (my finishing time was just after 7 hours) my legs were very stiff and I was waddling like a penguin. I wasn't very tired during the drive home (I ate some lasagna and Nutella afterwards a well) but when I got home, my tiredness hit me like a ton of bricks and I knocked out for about 4 hours.
During the week following the race, it took me a while to get my legs back to normal and heal my blisters. I could walk normally after about 3 days,but my blisters took about 2 weeks to heal. I started running/ power walking again after about 2 or so weeks because of my blisters, and much to my dismay, a pulled hamstring.
It was a lot different running after the Marathon, the 3 miles didn't seem as long and I found that I had a little more endurance than usual. However, it took me a little while to get over the pain of my blisters before I started running at the same pace and time as before the Marathon. Currently, I am still running 3 miles around 3 or 4 times a week- and things are going very smoothly.
Originally I had planned to do the Pasadena Marathon as well, but I quickly discovered that it was the morning after my Senior Prom and it was a little too soon after the LA Marathon to be running that same distance again. However, I would gladly run a Marathon again in the future and hope to complete some races while in college in Washington D.C. next year!!
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