Last night I went to bed around 10:30 and got around 8 hours of sleep which felt great. My left knee has a little soreness in it the last couple of days but nothing to worry about. I will make sure I don't do anything crazy on it the next few days. I was going to do some sort of speedwork or tempo run today, but my legs and my body were too tired this morning so I bagged that workout and just ran easy. I believe the fatigue factor is do to the higher miles this week , and being I'm less than two weeks from running a hard marathon. But I want to get high miles this week and do a three taper like I did for Pocatello. That really seemed to work well. I ran 11.23 miles at an overall 7:14 pace in 1:21. Good slow run and to be safe I just ran a flat course just to be careful on my knee today. The last two weeks I've ran a lot of hills and that could be the problem with the sorness, and also running on shoes that I really need to retire. The last mile I picked up the pace a ran a 6:45. (Asics Trainers 13 - 340 miles) Eveining I ran my evening run at my daughter's soccer practice. I wanted to only run 30 minutes so I could watch the second part of the practice. Everything started out good until I turned a corner up by Booth Rd. and wiped out on loose wet gravel that I didn't notice. I cut the palms of my hands like hamburger, and I cut my knee and calf up pretty bad too I also cut up fingers on each hand. But I did get up and continue to run with blood dripping heavily from my right hand. My hands hurt worst than my knee which I was myore worried about than the blood. I actually finished up 2 more miles after this, and my legs seemed fine after the impact on the gravel.. The knee and the calf were also bleeding.
I ran 5.23 miles in a 6:37 pace in 34.35 minutes. Last four miles I wanted to do a tinman tempo. 6:26 - (almost all downhill) Felt good with temperature in the 80's. 6:30 - (flat) Good pace and doing well. I fell almost at the end of this mile. 6:26 (flat) Trying to stay focused after the fall and keep the same pace.
6:24 (Part flat and part uphill) Focused on running the uphill at the same pace as the rest of the run, and not really that difficult.
(Asics Trainers 13 - 345 miles)
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