Finished my first 50 miler

Karl Hungus - 2010-07-04 1:11 PM WOW! Congratulations!!! I finished my one and only 50 miler last OCT and I think I am almost recovered now! Seriously, I was one HURTING unit for about two weeks! My recovery consisted of lots of fluids and Vitamin I! I know, not much help here. But you sound like you are in A LOT better condition than I was after mine. Which one did you run? Paved/Trail/Combo? Once again, congrats on a huge accomplishment!!!

Yeah i don't feel that bad...mostly sore legs and get this....shoulders lol!  It was all on a paved loop.  Yeah the two spots on my feet hurt pretty bad, and i'm hoping it's not a stress fracture.  I am doing and ironman in 18 weeks so i really evaluated my condition during the race and if I felt like the pain was injury pain i was going to stop.  I never got to that point so i am thinking it's just a worn out muscle.

Congrats on the mighty accomplishment. Make sure you are stretching over the next couple of days to stay limber. Walk around a bit as well. Keep an eye on that foot pain, if it doesn't clear up in a couple weeks, get it checked out.

Thanks for the comments.  I am always very conscious about my pain...So i went ahead and we to the dr and got xrays to make sure there wasn't a glaring stress fracture.  He has been a volunteer physician for the western states 100 before so he kinda knows whats going on.  He said he wasn't 90% positive that it was that tendon that runs around your ankle.  So i feel much better.  Taking the week off from running, but will be on the bike for some easy spins.  Legs feel pretty good today.