Trails!

Providence Star 10 - 

Enjoyed running on a quarter inch of snow on the road.  Nice and soft.  It was a near whiteout when I left my house so I over-dressed.  Good thing it stopped snowing halfway through my run so I could practice my running in heat technique.

T-1:15 (7:30) 750' vert 156 ave

Temple - Canal Trail - Bailed due to icy trail - USU campus - First Dam - Canyon Road - Temple

Just kind of cruised around.  Not too hard, not too easy.

T-1:20 (7:35) 148 ave 400' vert

Providence Canyon Trail 10 - 

Was doing fine until the downhills killed my knee.  My kneecap is inflamed and hurt again.  I has been hurting more and more everyday this week.  Today it got pretty bad, enough to make me slow way down.  Guess I will have some more downtime.  Bummer.

T-1:31:30 (9:05) 1650' vert 148 ave hr

Taking it easy today and decided to go for a cross-country ski instead of running.  I think it was a good choice to let the knee heal up.  It didn't hurt much today.  

Mike joined me today for a tour of green via the skiis.  Conditions were pretty crappy.  Very spring-like.  Sloppy and slushy with big puddles.  That made things pretty fast for the way up (grippy) but horrible for the way down (grippy).  Oh well, beats running on a treadmill or something like that...

T-1:37 (7.5 miles) 1000' vert

Real easy and flat 9 mile run today.  Within the first mile, my kneecap started to hurt but didn't get any worse.  Didn't really affect me so I kept going.  Its kind of sore now though.  Still gonna have to take it easy to let it heal.  Speed and hills hurts it.

T-1:15 (8:27) 138 ave hr

4 miles around the neighborhoods - easy pace (31 mins)

6 miles on Providence Canyon Trail with my sister.  Slow and easy for most of it.  I did ditch her for a bit (sorry) and ran some myself.  It was fun. 1:17 1100' vert

Knee cap pain is minimal, but still present.  Took it easy today so that hopefully it would heal up quick.