I was real excited to get out and run today for some reason, getting in 12.1 miles before work this morning. This was the kind of morning that reminds me why I love running so much .. I was on the road at 5:10am, before the sun came up .. with the dew in the air, a mist on the mountains, and a feeling of just pure peacefulness with nothing but me and the road all around … until my left knee started getting sore around mile 2 or so. Yep, really demotivated me fast. It wasn’t the kind of pain that would force me to stop, but it did force me to realize that I had a lot of miles left to run, so I best take it easy since my knee was sore.

It really feels like its my runners knee just flaring up though, i’ve struggled with it over the years and it seems to come and go .. I decided to wear my older shoes today since they actually have more tread left on them than my current shoes (which need to be replaced). That’s the only thing that’s different about today as I didn’t necessarily hurt my knee in any way to cause it to be sore, although I wore the same shoes on Sunday and didn’t have an issue. I’m debating as to whether I should do my speed workout tomorrow or just take an easy run instead … more than likely it’ll be an easy run, i’m too close to the marathon season to blow out my knee.

Hopefully it will clear itself up within a few days with some rest .. regardless, it wrecked a good run today although I did finish strong. The funny thing is my knee didn’t bother me for the first 4 hours after the run .. then it started to get sore, so who knows.