As I woke around 5:30 am on Sunday morning, which kinda sucks since I'm on vacation for Spring Break, I turned on the local news. All they could talk about was how nice of a day it was going to be. They kept telling me that it was going to be in the mid to upper 60's by midday. The current temp was hovering near 40. Knowing that I had a lot to do, and needing to run I decided it was now or never.
So I drug myself from my warm bed and "suited up". With no real plan of where or how far I wanted to run I headed out the door. I started out by heading toward Chris's house. Things were feeling pretty good, so I decided to tackle the route that he had run about a week ago, which would bring me back toward his neighborhood. As I neared the turning point where I could either cut my run short, meaning 7ish miles instead of 9ish, I opted for the longer route. This may have been a bit of a mistake. For whatever reason, be it not enough stretching, upping the miles too fast, or some other reason, I seem to be having some ITB issues on longer runs. At probably the 8 mile mark I began to have some slight discomfort in my right knee. Not bad enough to stop me, but discomfort. By the time I reached my house and stopped I was hit by some pain. I then headed inside and stretched my ITB followed by a round of icing. Things are feeling better this morning, but I think I will probably lay off of the running for a couple of days. Espcially since I am planning on heading to St. Louis with the family tomorrow morning for a couple of days.
Anyway, here are the numbers and route from yesterday's run.
9.09 miles in 1:17:50
Average pace was 8:33/mile
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