No running. Biked to gym, and warmed up muscles on elliptical for 5 minutes, then did stretching and core strength routine, along with some light lifting. One bit of good news: since I've stopped running, not only have I maintained my weight, but have actually lost a couple pounds. I'm now at 137, and just have 4 more pounds to get back to "college weight". This is unprecidented; usually I put on weight within days after ending training. I think the main reason why I'm still losing weight is because I've cut back from two PB&J sandwiches at lunch to one. Today I calculated the number of calories in one PB&J sandwich, and it came out to 460. I had no idea it would be that high, so cutting those calories is certainly helping. Also, although I am not really doing much cardio training, my core strength and stretching routine takes about 1 hour or more every day. While it's not running, it's still burning more calories than just sitting on my butt. I'll have to wear a HR monitor sometime to get an idea of what it's doing. Ailment ratings: SI joint: 8 -- no change lower back: 7 -- less stiff this morning, so good improvement over last two days knee: 6 -- still a little inflamed, but better than yesterday plantar fasciitis: 7 -- slow, steady improvement; the "morning effect" quite subdued when I got up, which is good. Hopefully I will get my night boot today. ****** Late day addendum: Such a beautiful day today...I snuck out of work at 4:30 and went for an 55-minute bike ride from my house up to where the single track starts on the Logan Canyon River Trail. This is about 13 miles total, give or take. I didn't do any single track because of time constraints and also I didn't want to get out of my saddle and stress my knee or foot at all. Everything felt great, except the left side of my back got a little sore after a while from the biking posture. My HR was in the 150s during segments where I was working hard. | 