Your legs feel like concrete.
You ache in places that you didn't know you had.
The bottoms of your feet are tender still.
You remain quite tired as you aren't sleeping well as everything hurts when you move in the night, and it wakes you up.
It's the mirror-image of the level of effort reflected back at you, a reflection of what you put yourself through. There's a small but quite real knowledge that you did it, you persevered, and whether you set a personal best, finished an extraordinarily hard mental run, hobbled across the line or know that you'll fight to run another day, you did it. It's satisfaction.
Post marathon mindsets range from "I'm never running again", through to "I can do better than that, I know it". The glow of having tried though, of having placed yourself against the grindstone and given it all you had at that moment...that is what it's all about. That's why we run.
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