Rest day. My knees are sore from yesterdays run. It wasn't an exceptionally long run, but it was my longest since the Marathon. I have a suspicion its the shoes though. I switched over to a shoe that wasn't quite as soft as the Vomero in hopes that I could ween myself from the softer shoe. I'll give my body some time to adjust, but if my knees continue to feel swollen and stiff a couple weeks down the line I may have to go back to the softer shoes. Also I have been having some ankle and forefoot tenderness. Its not that strong, but more along the lines of something just doesn't feel right. I'm able to run through it (and have been for almost 3 weeks), but it begins to become more noticeable about 6 miles into a run. I may take some time off. I hate to do this, but I haven't really been running hard, which leads me to wonder how my foot will respond when I do start hitting the speed work, hill repeats, etc again. For now the game plan for the upcoming week is to continue to work most of my runs around the 7:25 pace range and to use my softer shoes towards the end of the week. | 