Oh the joy of early, early runs. No moon, music maker is broken, and my knee is finding new ways to try and torment me. Other than that, it was really nice outside today and the run ended up being good. 4 -6 am & 55 degrees.
Knee was sore from Saturday's run. Doesn't usually do that, so I wasn't sure what to expect. At mile .5, I had to stop & stretch out my quad & re-adjust the knee band. It was great until I started going downhill just after mile 2. Lots of stopping, stretching, adjusting. Took a long time to sort it out and run. I was wondering if I was going to just have to walk home...very disappointing.
Finally got that straight, and it was good again until I was running a turn at mile 4.3. Same thing, stretch/adjust, walk a little, and then I was running again. Didn't bother me much at all after that. And it felt fine when I got home.. I just don't know about that silly knee.
At the mile 4.3 stretch, I forgot to re-start my garmin, and didn't notice until I was at mile 6. Luckily, I knew how many miles I'd gone, and how many more I needed to go, so I just pressed lap and went from there. Avg pace for the miles I had the garmin on was 9:08. I am fairly certain the 1.6 miles I missed were around a 9:15-9:20 pace. Over all tempo run with paces increasing most of the miles.
Hoping to make it through the work day without falling asleep. | 