Decided to take a day of rest for the knee yesterday. The route I’ve been running around the house has a 10+% grade hill, and it’s a real beating on the joints going down. Monday I ran up four times and down four times. I think I’ll tweak the route to run each 3.1 mile loop, which includes one run up and one down, to two up and none down. Save the beating for races.
Today’s run was a 12.5 mile rolling hills route. Pace was about 9:53, with several stops at intersections and a 10 or so minute stop for a long freight train. Never a dull moment. Hard to estimate the actual time, and who really cares about down-to-the-second accuracy for a training run. Weight was 144.8.