I ran along the same parkway trail as yesterday, although I went a little farther. My knee has been bugging me the last few days, so I decided to keep the pace a little slower today. On the way back home, the discomfort in the knee was the same as it had been previously, so I decided to run a fat mile as an experiment to test the knee. The discomfort actually lessened while I was running faster (5:51 mile according to trail markers, but I think that it might have been faster and the markers were wrong) and as I slowed down, the discomfort returned, but to a lesser extent. This prompted me to try a few sprints near the end of the run of shorter duration, but a much higher intensity, and the result was the same. I think that the discomfort might be related to tight muscles pulling on the knee after the race on Saturday, and running harder actually helps to stretch them out a little more and thus relieves the discomfort. Not sure about that one, but it is a guess. Total time for the run was 1:32:42, for 12 miles. | 