M convinced me to do another run tonite. Glad he did. I ran 3.4 in about 35 min. I walked for 2 minutes and stopped the clock for 2 stretch breaks.

Got a little taste of the runner's high again -- been awhile since I've felt that.

Knee, like yesterday, was only mildly uncomfortable. Hoping this means if I keep it steady I won't experience excruciating pain anytime soon.

Today I wanted to run 5 miles. I ran 3.5. It was a good reminder that I can't just wake up on April 5th and run a 10K like it's nothing.

The knee is feeling better and for the most part it's only mildly uncomfortable at times.

I need to get back into a better schedule with more frequent work outs if I want to be ready for the half in 6 weeks (eeek!)

Didn't run or work out Monday-Wednesday.

Ran about 3.1 miles on Thursday night. Took a different route so it was fun and different.

Tonight I'm going to do my strength workout on the exercise ball. Not sure what I'm going to do about the long run tomorrow. I have a busy day. Maybe I'll just switch it to Sunday.

We shall see...

Last Wednesday (2/26) I did my strength workout with M. I can tell I'm improving on this stuff so it's exciting. Thursday I did a 3 mile run. The knee hurt somewhat, but not as bad as in the past. I think the knee strap is helping.

Friday I didn't do anything training related, although resting is probably helpful for the knee. Saturday (yesterday) M and I did a 3.4 mile hike to Angels Rest. It was an amazing hike because the higher elevations of the mountain still had snow! My knee felt okay until the steep downhill parts of the hike. Totally worth it though:














Today I did a 4 - 4.5 mile run. The weather is beautiful and I couldn't pass it up! My knee killed at certain times of this run. I found that if I relax my hips and abs, and just let my hips twist as they naturally do when I walk, there is less knee pain. stretching when I got back helped a lot too. :)