Cursed Realm of the Faceless Ghost

Decent run today: seven 1-mile repeats at 6:00, with quarter-mile recoveries. That probably would have been out of the question a month ago, so I guess that means that I'm making progress. The problem I'm running into now is that my daily runs keep getting longer but I don't have any extra time for them. At some point I'm going to have to say that there's no time to do the full workouts, or that I need to start doing doubles, or that I just need to wake up earlier than I have been. And that will mean that I have to go to bed earlier or sleep less or both. Probably both. 

More steady miles this morning, so I headed to the indoor track at BYU to avoid the monotony of the treadmill. I got there before the doors open at 5:30, so I was able to get a great parking spot and rn my first couple of miles before the crowds started to build. My legs were really stiff this morning, probably from yesterday's mile repeats, and it took me a few miles to settle into a groove. But once I did the run went well enough. 

I think this one was destined to hurt a little regardless, but my sore legs made things a bit worse. I had to double check the instructions a few times before I started, but the basic intervals today went like this: half a mile at 5:40, right into a quarter mile at 5:30, then slowing it down to 6:00 for another mile. I did three sets of these with four minutes of recovery between them. 

Yesterday I was at Costco with Elliott and I let her play in the little cedar playhouse they have on display. Naturally, she had no interest in leaving when it was time to go, so I had to squat down to reach in and get her. When I did my right knee blew up. It's been sore since then, and needless to say I've been worried about it. But because it happened when I wasn't running, I thought it might now cause running problems, so I went ahead and went to the track. 

All was well. So for now I'm just going to take yesterday's incident as a sign that 1) I'm getting old, and 2) that my knees are rotten in general, not just rotten for running. And I'm going to hope that this doesn't turn into something that wrecks my marathon.

Tomorrow is a scheduled rest day, so that should give my knee an extra chance to heal.

Rest day.

Out and back from Provo into Provo Canyon. My legs felt better after a rest day, but it didn't last. By the time I got back the car they were sore and heavy. But other than the fact that it was freezing in the canyon, it was a good run.