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Today

Light rain shower High 68FLow 61F

Temp: 59F
Hum: 94%
W: 0mph N

WEDNESDAY

Mist
High 67F
Low 54F

THURSDAY

Overcast
High 68F
Low 62F

FRIDAY

Overcast
High 68F
Low 40F

SATURDAY

Sunny
High 64F
Low 41F

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November 4

Run

34m 08s
3.02 miles
11m 18s /Mi

Should have taken a day off from running after my sprint last night, but felt like I wanted some fresh air.

Knew I wouldn't do the 7mi on my plan, but thought I could go slow and long. Got to mi 1.75 and the sharp pain under my left kneecap was too much. Stopped to stretch. Started to run again, but it didn't help. Turned around and started walking home. After about 7 min, felt like I could jog it in despite the pain in my left (and the usual one in the right) which wasn't quite as sharp-knifey as before.

Too much, too soon. Have to be cautious on the back-to-back runs. Although I know some things about my running have gotten better, I've got a LOT of room to improve.

Ortho says I need an MRI to see if scoping the knee would help. The crunching sound from the chondromalacia patella might indicate that there's a lot of torn up cartilage in there that is causing further inflammation from rubbing along the rough surface. In the meantime, since orthotics are helping, I need to try for a fourth physical therapist and third full round of PT (ditched the first guy after a few weeks) with a new PT she recommended with an assessment and supervision by a sports therapist.

Funny that having had first gone to see a doc in 2006 about my knee pain, always described as worst with running, not a single doctor or specialist between then and now has ever looked at me run and I've never gotten a referral to a Sports Therapist. Ridiculous, come to think of it, that I've had my gait paid attention to more in shoe stores than by docs.

I like the new ortho that I saw... she seemed fairly irked that they haven't been able to help me for this long and thinks that now that we've finally got some of the basics down (determined my ankle prob that I need surgery for, got orthotics to help with my EXTREME over-pronation, understood that my hyperextension on the knees causes more stress on the joint and I need to pay attention to that while running...) that I could finally be on the road to some relief.

We'll see. Can't help but be skeptical since all the relief I've seen during PT in the past has been because I stopped running, but trying to be optimistic. I still have my pipe dream of the Hyannis 1/2 marathon at the end of February.

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November 3

Bike

34m 01s
8.50 miles
15.00 Mi/hr

Drainer, sweatin my youknowhat off with Jorge's plan. Cut it short so I could get in the shower and to work on time. And because the first time back on the bike in two months was TOUGH! That's what I get for being a slacker!!!

(Distance based on est 15mph avg pace)

Run

29m 31s
3.11 miles
09m 30s /Mi

Had a ton of energy when I got home. Weird. So I slipped on my sneaks and whaddaya know... I'm kinda surprised, myself. No, not kinda. DEFINITELY surprised.

Found the skewer that came with my drainer. On the other bike! Had to swap them this morning. Wonder what happened to the third skewer...

I'm pretty distance-centric when it comes to tracking my training, so this will be interesting to just work on time and really learn how to use my HRM.

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November 2

Was going to do the first session of JorgeM's winter cycle plan, but setting up my drainer this morning I realize I have my original Bontrager skewer on my rear wheel which has a lever that never fit the Kurt Kinetic cup. I need to find the one that came with my drainer again and swap them out. Unfortunately my apt is a train wreck at the moment and I don't even know where to begin to look!

I forsee some digging, mess-making, and cleaning in my future later this evening.