faster with age

     9 miles at a relaxed easy pace. I was hoping to get in a few more pm miles but never got the time.

     Same run as yesterday morning. It felt like fall in the air with the temp at 38 this morning. 8:27 pace.

     Went over to Weston canyon to get in some hill running. I ran the 3 mile stretch down the canyon 3 times to get in some more downhill miles. After a 1 mile warm up in 8:07, I ran the first 3 mile interval at 6:55 ave pace. This stretch of road drops 400 feet in 3 miles and I had quite a bit of headwind blowing up the canyon. I drove back to the top in about 5 minutes then ran the next 3 miles at 6:46 ave pace. This time I rode my mt bike [that I had hidden] back to the top in 13 minutes then ran the 3rd  3 mile interval at 6:42 ave pace. I did a .35 cool down and my wife [who had walked up the canyon while I was running] picked me up. Overall pace for 9 miles was 6:47. 

     PM     Went out after dark to run 4 miles. Had to quit with less than 1.5 because of knee pain that suddenly came on.

     I went for 24 miles on my mt bike this morning. Afterward I tried running again. Everything felt fine for 2 miles then that pain came in my left knee again. Yesterday in the last 1/2 mile of my MP run this pain suddenly came on but after about 100 yards it went away and felt fine the rest of the day until last nights run. I'm not sure what is going on with it. It will feel 100 % normal then after running a couple of miles it will suddenly start to hurt and hurts even after I stop running and start walking. But if I squat down in a deep knee bend it completely goes back to normal. Then if I start running again it is fine until I get about 1/4 mile and the pain comes back. The pain is on the front and to the inside of my knee. I'm wondering if there is some fluid that is getting in the wrong place and when I squat it forces back out. Not sure? 

     I'm not sure what to do about my knee? I'll probably skip running today and then not sure what I'll do about my planned 20+ miler tomorrow. It feels fine until I have run a few miles so it's hard to know until I get into the run.

     Now this is starting to scare me. I had hoped that after a 3 mile day Thursday and yesterday completely off that this little knee thing would go away. I had already scrapped my long run for this morning but I thought maybe I could get in 8 or 10. After 2 days off I had loads of energy and was really ready to go but after 2 1/2 miles I started feeling this slight discomfort in the same part of my knee. I stopped and did a couple of squats and it went away like it does and I went just over a mile further but it came back and it was getting worse so I quit my run and walked 2 miles home. It is just like IT band syndrome how it comes out of nowhere after a few miles and quickly gets bad enough that you can't run on it at all. The difference is this is to the inside of my knee and it doesn't go away as soon as I slow to a walk like ITBS does. But it does instantly go away when I squat to the ground with a deep knee bend but returns quickly after running a little ways. Any ideas with this welcomed. 

      After my run I had to go help with a service project moving rocks [large and small] from an elderly womans yard. Just what I need for my ailing back. After that I left at noon for a 30+ mile mountain bike ride so I could get some kind of a workout. My knee was actually slightly sore riding the last couple of miles but feels good as new as soon as I quit. I had an orthopedic doctor look at my knees a few months back when I had a lump that turned out to be a bakers cyst. At that time he was looking at my x-rays and said my knees looked perfect so I would doubt it is a cartilage problem. I only got in 37 running miles this week [not counting bike miles] which is about 33 less than I was planning.