St. George Running Center - Run For Life.

Went out for a morning run. Felt Pretty good. Spent about 45 min. stretching last night and some more time this morning before I went out. I just wanted to make sure my knee didn't start acting-up. However, about 3.5 miles into the run it started to tighten up on me. So, I stopped and stretched for a while and it seemed to be OK after that.

Pushed the pace on and off. I figure I had about 3 miles at marathon pace 2 easy miles.

I hope to get out and get another run in this evening.

This morning I went in for a massage but I was about 15 min late so he wasn't able to work on my knee issue as much as I wanted him to. He was able to work on a few issues in my hips, calves and hams. Morning Run 10 miles. Ran from the house over the Desert Reserve to the entrance of Snow Canyon and back to the house on the paved bike path. I felt pretty good until mile 7 and my knee started acting up again. So I had to stop and stretched a few times and even walk a few times the last 3 miles. Came home and spent about 15 min stretching. Evening Run - Hill Repeats - .30 mile hill - Elevation at Start 2829ft, Finish Elev. 3038 - Started with a mile warm-up 1. 1:51 - Started off feeling pretty fast and thinking I was a freak-en animal. After the first .15 the hill incline doubles and by the end of the .30 my lungs were burning like crazy. 2. 1.55 - Confidence was lacking a little after knowing how I felt at the end of the first hill. Knee started acting up coming back down the hill a little stopped and stretched. 3. 1.51 - Started feeling like I had a better grasp on what to expect and tried pushing it a little harder. Had to stretch the knee a little more. 4. 1:50- Went all out and it felt great. jogged back to the house and stretched.

Easy 5 this morning out in the desert reserve.

Ran with the club from the Park to Web Hill then down a single track trail I hadn't been on before to the paved bike trial, across the Virgin River, Santa Clara river and back to the park. Total run was about 9.25 miles.

Cruised the first miles until we hit "THE HILL" and I thought I was going to blow chunks the last 200M of the 1 mile hill. My legs were feeling pretty heavy and my body temp was really heating up. Then took it easy down the the bike path and across the river. We all started picking it up a bit about 100M before we turned on 700S. from Main st. Then from there we basically just chased down Clyde for a little more than a mile.

I'm feeling pretty good. However, even though my weight is dropping I still feel heavy when I run. What if I get down to my goal weight and I still feel the same way? Would that mean I have some psycho-mental weight issue illness?

Ran with the Club this morning from the Dixie Center. Went over and around Bloomington and over into Bloomington Hills. Bill and I ended up cutting back by Flying J. Bill wanted to take it easy because of his calf and I was nervous my knee was going to start acting up due to it being cold and not stretching very well before we started the run. Sure enough after Bill and I turned off my knee started tightening up.

I guess we were keeping a 6:50-7:15 pace according to navigator Dave.