Recovery

Recovery form a marathon seems to take longer each time I run one.  It has been a month now; I began running again a week after the race, and have been steadily increasing mileage each day.  I feel just great as each run begins, but then I hit the wall again at mile three, or four.  That little niggling pain in my right knee crops up, and my legs begin to fill slowly with lead.  Will I ever recover?

But each time I push a little farther and it becomes a little easier.  Today I ran eight miles!  It seems impossible that only a month ago I ran three times that distance! 

The body and its ability to recover is truly miraculous.