As the fall marathon season winds down, runners’ focus shifts from training to tapering to recovery. Twenty-six point two miles is no joke (so I’ve heard)! You can’t just run a marathon then workout the next week, your legs need weeks and sometimes over a month to fully recover. It may seem frustrating to drop from 60+ mile-weeks down to less than 30, but in the words of Bikram, “Your body loves you for doing it.”So what is the normal amount of time to recover from a marathon effort? Some preliminary googling, plus talking to my marathoning teammates tells me that there is no set formula. Most agree that you shouldn’t run at all for the week after the marathon. Go for walks or spin lightly for 30 minutes to flush lactic acid waste out of your muscles. Basically you’re in reverse taper mode – eat well and train easy until you feel back to normal (try this protein and veggie-intense Sweet Potato Frittata recipe). If you ran a really hard race, if you started too fast and bonked, if