Rainy morning but the temperature was in the 40's. I ran 8.3 miles at a 7:17 in 1 hour. I was trying to run easy by feel and not pushing the run at all. I ran all over just making the route up as I went. The whole distance was flat. My inner knee on the right leg has been hurting the last couple of days, and it actually hurt this whole run this morning. I will not run tomorrow not because I'm taking a day off, but my wife is leaving for Boise today and will be gone till Thursday night so I have to be home in the morning. I will not have time the whole day to run. This break is good anyway to give the knee a chance to heal, and if it doesn't feel good on Friday, I won't run Friday either. One thing to note looking at the marathon on Saturday, when I turned into the last bit on the gateway, I looked at the digital clock display and it was right at 2:44:50 so I thought okay I will be under 2:45 and I picked the pace up, but I could have ran faster than I did, but I thought I had an easy 2:45 something. But when I could see the finish line digital clock from a distance it showed 2:45:58. I sprinted too late and got 2:46:07. Lesson to learn don't ever assume something, but give it all you have at the end.
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