I got over 7 hours of sleep last night so this week has been really good as far as sleep goes. The temperature was 43 degrees and partly cloudy, but still windy. I did 12 x 100m strides with 100m internal in-between. Then I did one 200m towards the end of the run. I started this after about 8 miles of running, and my legs felt fresher than yesterday. I still have this bulging knee pain when I run, but anyway the last three mile splits 6:22, 6:08, 6:23. I ran 11.1 miles at an overall 6:55 pace in 1:17. I only wanted to do 10 miles today, but because of a train detour I had to run an extra mile to get back to my house. No big deal ...the trains do keep jobs in our community. Tomorrow I'm only going to do 6 miles to be ready for the race Saturday if I still decide to do it or not. I'm debating to hold off and not risk anything, but I would like to run a 10k race. (Saucony Tangent 3 - 79 miles) Lunch I did sit-ups and push-ups, mowed my grandpa's lawn, and dropped my lawn mower off at the shop and I did this all in an hour. For the last two weeks almost I've done sit-ups and push-ups three times a day. I really think it's helping my core development, and will help in the later stages of a marathon.
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