Week 4 of 23: Friday

Max Speed: 5.9 mph
Ave Speed: 3.6 mph
Time: 30:02 minutes
Distance: 1.802 miles

Today was terrible. It was bad. B A D. Christy decided to run with me today and we both thought it would be fun to try someplace new. So we went to a trail park we had been meaning to check out. That was a mistake. The place was so hilly. Too hilly.

Christy had no trouble keeping up the pace and handling the hills. I, however, was another story. I was tired from the beginning. The constant up hill battle wasn't helping my knee and sometime around the 20 minute mark I did something strange to my left knee (not the knee that normally hurts). I probably landed on it weird coming down a hill, but for the last 10 minutes I was really staggering.

I was able to finish the run without walking, and I went home and immediately iced my knees. Soothing knee coldness...... That seemed to be enough for them. Later the next day they were good as new (as "new" as they have been that is).

Moral of the story.... hills hurt.

p.s. Hills, I've heard, are an essential part of any workout to improve performance. In my program I should have been doing an interval work out today, and my first "hill" work out isn't for another 3ish weeks. I should have been in better condition before attempting this (although we didn't know about it until too late).