A lot of people recover from marathons by doing light cross training or a reverse taper (take your training plan from taper and work backwards). Me? Because I think this time I may have really injured something, I’m recovering a bit differently.* I’m doing one week of absolutely no fitness activity, coupled with eating lots of crappy-but-oh-so-good food and yummy adult beverages. So far so good.
*Note: this recovery method hasn’t been scientifically tested, so try it at your own risk.
Beer!
Best dessert ever at Hazellwood – berries, oatmeal cookie and ice cream
Pinot!
Stay tuned for some exciting (for me anyway) news after my eat/drink fest recovery!
Runnin' From The Law 
Good work!
oooh, wonder what the exciting news is!
wait, is there any other way to recover by drinking and eating a lot?! a week of no running or anything else is completely necessary!
I like your plan! Especially the beer part!
In any case you might want to have your IT band looked at or at the very least ice it when you can. I had a similar thing happen a few years ago and I used a roller on it. It was painful medicine but it really mad a difference.
Enjoy the break!
Well, you’ll have incredible biceps after all that lifting 😉
Recover well!
All I can say is that’s about a yummy a recovery program as I can imagine 🙂 Nice work and nice eating!