Doorgaan naar hoofdcontent

The top five best feels after a long run

 Hi y'all,

Today I wanna leave politics (covid and all the rules), social stuff and me (akwardness and mean people) and basically life outside the run bubble out of this post. Today I wanna focus on the after running part. So here is my top five of after run best feels in no specific order:

NUMBER  1: Food





After a long run everything just tastes sooooo much better. Just two slices of bread that you'd normally have for lunch now taste like a piece of heaven in your mouth. A big huge bowl of instant noodle soup is like a dish made by a top chef and trying to slow down in order to not burn your mouth is downright impossible. Even my post run shake tastes like the best thing ever (don't ever try it without running because they all taste like chemical dung!!) So definately eating food after a long run is one of the best feels.

Number 2: A hot shower

Getting under that hot shower, realizing you either did or did not chafe (second trumps first by far) and feling all the salt (yep that's sweat) rinse of your face...there's just hardly anything like it. Washing your hair and using that one particular (in my case very minty fresh and actually cooling) shower gel and just never wanna get out of that shower again unless there's food. Trust me a post run hot shower is just the best.

Number 3: Tea!








Tea. Huge huge huge mugs of herbal tea with honey. Why? because after all the sweat and heat and even the hot shower I tend to cool off rapidly and once I'm cold...I'm beyond repair. So after that hot shower and the food there has to be tea. The glowing hot mug in hands or resting on my belly just use every inch of heat I can use to keep warm. My favorite herbal teas are mixtures made by a local herbalist who uses all kinds of herbs to come up with amazing teas. I like the calming one a lot. It's made with chamomille, lavender, hops and lemon balm. If you're from the Netherlands and into herbal teas and herbalism than you should definately check her out https://www.polderkol.nl/

Number 4: chill hose...

Soft warm clothes to be exact. No constricting items such as tight skirts or tough fabrics such as jeans or prickly wool. The best items for me a jersey dresses, cotton leggings, wireless bra's, huge sweaters/vests, long thermo socks, my texla slippers. Again if you're from the Netherlands and totally done with cold feet you gotta check m out. These are the ones I have but they have many more https://www.texelana.nl/pantoffels/texla. I don't like to have tough fabrics touching my skin after a long run. Somehow I tend to get a bit of sensory overload after pushing myself.

Number 5: chillaxing








Last but not least one of the best feels after a long run is that feeling of total relaxation. The part where you can just slouch on the couch, Netflix and chill. Simply because your daily stepcount is through the roof anyway, you burned so many calories that no amount of food you can eat without throwing up will replace them and because honestly? You just don't wanna move any muscles unless it is absolutely necessary. 

Long runs are painful, they take for ever and they can make you feel like crap but those feelings afterwards are irreplaceable  and very addictive. These feels make up for just one part of why I will never stop running. They're just....the best

That's it for now, until we read again

As always, Love Marlies



Reacties

Een reactie posten

Populaire posts van deze blog

New year's runsolutions: Rethink, reschedule, redefine

Hi y'all, With 2016 coming to a close I am, like many others, trying to focus on closing and starting up. Out with the old, in with the new. December has always been the most magical month of the year for me. The cold brings in this almost eery serenity on your early morning runs. The fog lingering over the frost bitten gras, frozen over lakes and canals, the sky coloring crimson red with the sun trying to break the night's dark blue. Go out for a run and you can imagine running into a wizard with his wand out conjuring a patronus just for practice (oh yeah...I am a true Potterhead). December is magical and this year I once again find myself redefining my wishes. Alas I'm still recovering from my my IT-band injurie but this year I am travelling the road of the wise. My goals can only be reached by being the smart one now. So I am rethinking my runcketlist and I have come up with a good schedule for the big moments: - January 8th 2017 Saucony Egmond quarter marathon....
Een reactie posten
Meer lezen

Ode to the last runner

Hi y'all Today I ran the Zandvoort circuit run for the second time. It is a 12km run divided in three parts of 4km. The first part you run over a motor racing track, than you head down to the beach and run 4km over a stretch of beach and after that you run your last 4km back to the track and that is where you finish. Running isn't always fun and today in particular I didn't have fun. I was distracted a lot and I couldn't focus on what I was doing there and why I was there to begin with. It started out pretty well with a good first 4km on the tracks feeling good and trying to stick with my own goal which was running within my D1 zone. It all went to crap when we got to the beach. You know it is not the first time that I compare running to life. At that stretch of beach, with high tide and hardly any beach, things got tough and when they do the uglyness that people carefully hide under a thick layer of well preserved politeness? Well that goes to crap with it. I ran a...
Een reactie posten
Meer lezen

Happy birthday to me!

Hi y'all, It is my BIRTHDAY and today I celebrate life. This morning my super amazing husband man woke me up with a stack of amazing birthday presents. He got me an anatomy poster, a book on the anatomy of stretches, the amazing meals on the run cookbook by runner's world and tickets to tonight's performance of Ciske the Rat the musical. I am soooooo happy. After breakfast and gifts I went over to Running Holland because as of today I am an intern on two groups of beginning runners. Can you believe it? The day I turned fortyfour I started out as an intern. That just made smile. In time I will take on some of the parts in training and I will teach them too. Today I learned a lot about coaching beginners and I have had tremendous fun watching another coach in action. The fact that it is my birthday remained a secret and that felt really good. It felt like celebrating something nobody knew about and somehow that made this morning a little sunnyier than it actually was. ...
Een reactie posten
Meer lezen