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Originally posted by Tim Roden
I don't know that you can cool down properly in the car. Probably the best thing to do is park on the far side of the parking lot where you have a long walk to your car. In my younger days when I was running cross country in college, we would often jog around the course after a race as our cool down. Obviously this isn't doable in your situation but by walking across the lot you get the same effect.
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Rainmaker
Running races that last more than 10 hr. kinda makes warm-downs a moot point. Seems that runners though are about the only athletes that seem to take warm-downs seriously. Even the ball players don't do much outside of shaking hands, cutting down nets, kicking the bleacher, yelling all kinds of things, and hugging the cheerleaders.
I spoke with some of my running buddies at today's jog. Although 2 of them are constantly surfing the net for all kinds of information, none of them recall any canned excercise programs, like those provided by the airlines. But they concurred with what I said earlier and with what Tim said above.
I suppose that the bottom line is: Do whatever you can before you have to take that long trip home. I personally try to walk to the nearest Carl's Jr., Burger King, or Taco Bell and try to eat something really healthy!
