With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

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.

majestic morning with 8 hours of sleep.....so why was I still tired?????

Shred & elliptical.  Want to go easy on the knee so it'll be nice to me the rest of the week.  Maybe I can bike tonight..... it'll be a SHELBI..shred, elliptical, bike!!

got out early(4:10) for some speedwork. Warm up mile 10:06, then fast mile at 7:43, recovery 1/2 mile jog, fast mile 7:48. Speed was good, knee was good. I was supposed to run 11 total with 4 speed mile sessions.

Just after the second fast mile, I was just starting the slow down jog, and shazam! mis-stepped and my knee went ouch! That was the beginning of the end. I did all the stretches/walking/re-adjusting I could, but wasn't able to run without pain. I headed home to pull out the big guns- the super sized knee brace- and put it on. It offered a lot of relief, and as long as I didn't run too fast, all was good. I could feel the knee occasionally, but I could still run.

The walk home & stretching sucked up my time, so I only got to finish 9 miles. Knee felt pretty good at home. I'd taken a naprosyn before heading out. Iced the knee a little, and went to work. All was great until I tried the stairs. I guess all isn't good.

Gotta figure out what the crap I need to do to get the knee straight asap. Supposed to run 11 tomorrow and 20 Saturday. Considering resting for a few days and moving the 20 back another week.

Any suggestions?

The only reason I ran this "race" was to get a 1/2 day off work next month.  Yes, I can be bribed.  $22.50 for 1/2 day is obviously my going price. 

Ran .5 warm up with just the knee band on.  It was touch & go with the knee, so I put the big knee brace on for the run.  We went slow & easy.  The course was the tough hill course downtown.  Good training, except when my knee hurts :-(

We still managed to pass people and came in under 30 min.  I was woman #25, Wyatt was #24.  No idea about other AG places.  Didn't hang around to find out.  Just wanted to go home and cry myself a river over my silly knee.

Got in a 22 mile bike ride.  8 miles were easy as I rode along side Wyatt as she ran.  The other 14 were good effort.  I think I'll be visiting my bike a little more often for a while.

25th out of all the women.  4th in my AG (10 year groupings)