Well...I was going to run some intervals on the track at the high school across the street from my house tonight but they are apparently renovating the football field and other facilities there. I decided to do a nice warm-up by running two miles in 14 minutes then got down to the business of running up stairs. I ended up tackling 1,000 stairs in 19 minutes, then headed out for a nice 1.5ish mile cooldown run. Although I didn't get to run my intervals tonight, the stairs were great and my pulse was really ratched up a notch. Overall, I finished my running in 43:28 for about 5ish miles. On the ITB note, the new stretching/strengthening I'm doing is really helping and it's starting to feel better after only 2 days. I'm probably overly optimistic, but I think I may have this totally fixed in about 1 week. I did however notice that when I was wandering around my complex tonight, it started to hurt again. The only reason I can think of that it was hurting was because I was wearing my old/beat-up flip-flops. When I took Pepper for a walk tonight, I wore running shoes and it was totally fine. I believe that I may have found the root of my evil pain. :) | 