10.4 easy miles at 7:45-50 pace from BYU at 4:30am. Met Sasha as usual about 2 miles into the run on the trail. The quads are a bit sore but bearable. The good news is the knee was only a little stiff this morning and the sharp pains that I was having last week for the first couple miles are gone! It looks like the ice and ibuprofin routine are working. Hopefully this continues this week and it completely heals up. Overall I actually feel better today than I did all last week. However, I will take this week one day at a time and run how the body feels. I want to fully recover and get back to feeling good again so I do not want to push it to hard to fast. As one of the other bloggers sayings goes "patience and perseverance". Once again good racing overall by the FastRunningBlog community. The blog had some great results including 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 11th overall just to name the bloggers that I know in the top group. By Sasha's analysis he feels this course is similiar time wise to the Great Salt Lake 1/2 which he has caluculated to be 2-2:30 slower than a flat sea level 1/2. | 