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Ran a slow 7 miles to Liberty Park and around the perimeter a couple of times.  My knee was stiff but not too bad or painful. 

I could definitely note a change in fitness but it was great to be out running despite it.  It's very disappointing dealing with an injury like this.  I thought it was gone last week but it was back by the end of the week. 

We'll see how it goes.  Tomorrow I plan to do stairs.  If I have to I'll walk.  I need to prepare for the Wasatch Steeplechase and its huge climb.

Leg was hurting.  Ran 2 treadmill miles and about 20 minutes of slow stairs.  The total time was about 40 minutes.

35 minutes of 8% grade on the treadmill.  My knee still felt stiff.  Going slow this is the only way I can get a decent workout.

35 minutes of stairs.  Fairly good pace.  Did about 20 5 story flights up and down.  This is a very good workout.  I miss the long, flat, faster runs but oh well.  I figure I can at least work on my climbing for some of the hilly races I want to run.

I don't know for sure how far I went.  It was a 56:30 run and I tried not too push it too hard but instead just enjoy every minute of it.  It was a great run.  My knee was fine at that pace but my arch hurt a bit.  I'm way overdue for new shoes and so I know how to fix that problem - just have to do it.

Weight was up 173 (goal 160);  It will head back down as I continue my training.

Three miles plus stairs.  It didn't have much time and did what I could.  Total time was about 40 minutes of running (treadmill and stairs).

Approximately 7 miles (but who's counting?).  I ran for 30 minutes out through Salt Lake City and came back in about 27 minutes.  57 minutes total.  My knee felt good.  It was a beautiful day!

Weight 172 (goal 160)

It felt good to be out running.  I ran throughout beautiful South Salt Lake 30 minutes out and about 30 minutes back.  I only got a little lost and only had one strange lady yelling at me.  The font color is in recognition of the improved sunshine.  Ok, that's strange.

Anyway, I don't know how far the run was but I would imagine that it was at least 7 if not more miles.  I'm trying not to care.  I've found that if you don't care about the miles, you can run anywhere.  It's very liberating.  I've been discovering all kinds of new places.  I just wish there were some trails near the SL County building where I work.

Anyway, it was a great run!

Weight 172 (goal 115)  ...  I mean 160.

52.5 minutes of stairs.  This was easily equivalent to a 7 mile run in terms of effort, if not much more.  I then ran a half mile on the treadmill to see how my body recovered from the stairs.  It did really well.  I would have gone longer but I didn't have time.  Our building is about 5 stories and I went up and down 30 times.  It was a great work out and my knee felt good.

I was short on time and did five miles on the treadmill.  Felt good.

I missed my chance to run in the morning.  I tried to do it after dinner but the taco salad I had wasn't conducive to running.  I ended up walking, which was nice under the starry sky.  I hope to do a better Saturday run next week and really get things back on track.  I was reasonably please with my workouts from Monday through Friday.  My knee feels better every day.  I will be pleased if I can get my workouts to the equivalent of about 50 miles per week by mid-april though some of the workouts will be on stairs and so my miles will appear to be less.

Forgot my clothes to run in.  This was a little frustrating.  There is no time after work to run so I wasn't terribly happy about the mistake.

30 minutes out toward Westminster and 26 minutes back.  Nice day but didn't feel the most energetic.

Weight 172 (goal 160)

Just Ran

Felt fine through about mile 2 and then developed a bad gut.   Ran walked back.  Not the best work out.

Ran a couple miles and then did a lot of core exercises.  Pretty disappointing performance.  I just did not feel too great.

Ran around Liberty Park.  About 56 minutes.

Weight 171

My achilles started to ache so I did some weights instead of finishing my 7 miles.  Frustrating to say the least.  It all seems to happen in my right leg (knee pain, arch pain, and now achilles pain).  I suppose that the knee problem may have led to the others.  I'm still running with old shoes, which is probably a lot of the problem.  I need to get out and get some.  Money is always a problem with 4 kids but time is the bigger problem.  I never have time to get out and take care of this and I'm afraid of buying the wrong shoe online.  Of course, I've done so poorly buying shoes when I've actually gone out and bought them that perhaps it doesn't matter.  Perhaps I would do better using the internet.

Urgh.  Anyway, hopefully the leg problems will have diminished for Wednesday.  The pain didn't seem serious but I was afraid that if I didn't stop it could lead to something serious.

It's an ongoing saga.