All about that pace.

7:00am

My knee was still very stiff this morning so I took it really easy. There was almost no traffic so it was a nice, quiet, peaceful run. I think that's why I don't mind running so early on the weekdays, I really like the solitude. My knee finally loosened up around mile 7 or 8 and feels better now than it did last night. I think it will be ok tomorrow.

Pace 7:40

Distance    Split pace
1.00    7:33
2.00    7:20
3.00    7:43
4.00    8:01
5.00    8:08
6.00    7:51
7.00    7:45
8.00    7:52
9.00    7:20
10.00    7:15
10.06    6:33

5:00am

My knee is still sore. I took it very easy, but now I'm thinking I might need to take a day or 3 off, ouch. No splits today, my garmin was dead on the charger this morning. No signs of life whatsoever :(

Pace 7:46

7:00am

I did 4 easy miles this morning. The first 2 of my 10 miler and back. When I say easy I mean effort-wise not necessarily speed-wise. For the first mile I was uncomfortable at best, but I was a little stiff and had a cramp in my calf that made it hard to judge the feeling in my ham. There was definitely some discomfort, but not really painful by my standards. I probably should have discussed the definition of pain with Preston yesterday when he said to stop if there was any. Aside from my leg which was mostly manageable, 7:30ish felt like a brisk walk and it was hard to resist going faster. It was also really hard to stop short of my normal 10 miles; my legs want to run!

Distance    Split pace
1.00    7:28
2.00    7:25 down hill
3.00    7:46 up hill
4.00    7:28
4.08    7:31

Apparently, this little guy is the problem:

12:00pm

I was hurtin' again last night after my little 4 mile run so I didn't run this morning and instead went to the doc to get a referral to PT so Preston can get paid :) The doc gave me the referral and practically yelled at me for not cross training during the last week and told me to go straight to the Y and find something that would get my cardio going for a couple hours without straining my leg! I expected to hear something more like "if running hurts then you should just stop". Well, I just got back from the Y and I'm pretty excited! I ended up on a machine called sci-fit REX, it's like a recumbent eliptical thing and the first 20 minutes on it didn't bother my leg at all! I accidentally set the difficulty on 20(the highest setting) when setting the timer to 20 minutes so needless to say it was a bit of a workout. After that I figurured another hour on a hilly profile with a difficulty level of 10 should be good. It was good...and hard! 80 minutes on that thing was a much harder cardio workout than my usual 10 miler(around 75 minutes). Now i'm just praying that things don't flare up later like they did after my run yesterday. My calves did cramp up pretty bad when I got off the machine, which was a weird feeling, but I'll beat them into submission with the stick :) I didn't think to check if REX measures distance or not so I still get zero miles for today.