catherine's running efforts

At the gym. It's sweaty there. I watched Grey's Anatomy on my phone because I'm really into that right now even though I've already watched all of the episodes. 9:05/mile, 1% incline for the first 3 and 2% for the last 2. 

I miss my Altras. They feel a lot better on my feet. But I'm afraid to wear them because they were what I was wearing when my knees were hurting. I'll totally take blisters instead of knee pain. 

Also I've been noticing from the pictures of the Wedding Bells 5k that my legs don't kick up like the legs of the faster runners. If I ever think about what my legs are doing I just try to think about being relaxed and easy, and it looks like this makes them stay pretty low. If I try to have more range of motion will I go faster? Or will I have more range of motion if I get faster? 

I'm not really trying to get faster right now, though. Right now I just want to run a little bit more than I did last week and take care of all the other stuff I'm supposed to be taking care of.  

My legs were *so* tired and heavy and slow this morning since it was only about 12 hours since yesterday's run. But I pushed through and stuff. First mile on my own, 2nd with the ward women, and the rest on my own again (they were having a shorter morning). As I was running on 100 E I saw someone coming toward me on the sidewalk and from far away I thought maybe it was Toby even though it was later than Toby runs, but it wasn't. But whoever it was was running with a group that included Lindsay Dunkley so I said hi. I wish she still FRBed. :)

9:18, 10:45, 9:26, 9:51, 9:15 

At the gym. The first 6 were in the Cardio Cinema with Ocean's 11, and the last 6 were in the main area with Grey's Anatomy. The problem with my Kinvaras is that, while they're great shoes and I loved them a lot pre-baby, my feet got bigger with pregnancy and I didn't buy a bigger size when I got a new pair last year. And Eric keeps telling me to buy a new pair of shoes in the bigger size, but it's not like money grows on trees for us. So now there are a couple of spots on my left foot that rub on the shoe. I almost stopped after 10 miles today because of one of those spots, but then the blister popped and all was good again. 9:30 miles, 1.5 incline for the first half and 1.0 for the second. 

I think I'm going to try to go back to the Altras next week. I love how much room my feet have in them. And I went almost 300 miles in them before my knee started hurting, so probably it's not like I'm going to put them on and all of a sudden have knee pain again. If the knee pain's even related to the shoes. Though my knee didn't stop hurting until I switched shoes, and since then I haven't had any pain at all. But I hate to blame the shoes. They're so comfy. But I hate being injured.