Day 3,649 —Thoughts on Recovery and Complete Edition of the Ozark Foothills finally here! —

It was nice today! I would be running more if I had more time and was getting up earlier, but that is not the case. However, I don’t feel guilty about not being able to do as much. After completing 100 miles, it is safe to say that I feel like I am in pretty good shape. Today, I am thinking that I am once again out of shape, but for that week after the race at least, I feel pretty good. 

I don’t know if it is just the plants or the streak running or a combination of them both, but I do have nearly the same issues of recovering like I once did. My biggest issue is that I think I rolled my ankle. I don’t know what that feels like, but people talk about it a lot, I did land on my foot wrong, and my ankle was hurting me during the race. At the time, I reminded myself how helpful the pain was to stay awake, but after the race, it was still bothering me, so I have been running in my sandals for most of the week. 

I was thinking that I don’t talk about being vegan as much anymore, but probably because it is automatic now compared to how it was when I first started. And, I am often tempted to give a vegan perspective on different things; however, I find people do not seem to respond positively to me when I identify myself as vegan. It is difficult when you see how terrible people treat their bodies with what they eat, but you cannot fix other people’s problems for them, you can just try to help.