Another crappy weather day. Fought gusting headwinds on much of the outbound leg (uphill, of course), then winds died on return so no boost there. Difficult to keep HR below 146 threshold. Some local flooding from all the rains and the snow runoff from increased temps today had me soaked above my ankles in about 5 minutes....felt like I was running cross country (not that I ever did run cross country) on the road. 2 dog encounters (same dog); 1st included a connection between my foot and it's jaw (just enough to let it know to back off); 2nd took about a minute for owner to finally retrieve pooch from our standoff, so overall recovery pace of 9:15/mi average is a bit off. Time to retire my oldest pair of shoes today as the just hit 500 miles. Much less left knee pain today. Suspect pushed too hard on Easy run days this past week, so must continue to program in Recovery days.
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