A.M. - Easy treadmill run at the Life Centre. 45 minutes, all flat: 3+ mins on a crappy treadmill at 8.5 mph. I got of and switched machines after a 1/2 mile. 5 minutes @ 8.5 mph 5 mins @ 9.0 35 mins @ 9.5 Please excuse my whining, but my week got off to a bit of a rough start. Couldn't fall asleep for the life of me last night. Probably due to a combination of too much sleep Saturday night, too much sugar Sunday night, and stress about work. After getting maybe a couple hours of shut eye, I got up later than I should have and had to abbreviate the run and lacked the motivation/energy to do any more than an easy pace. Also, I tweaked something on the outside of my left knee on Sunday. I strongly believe it wasn't running related. I felt it start to come on Sunday afternoon and I had not run since Saturday morning. I'm thinking it was one of 2 things (which I did a lot of both on Sunday): (1) shoveling the snow and packed-ice off my driveway Sunday morning (not sure if maybe the repetitive motion and applying force in a weird way may have aggrevated it); (2) lugging around my fat little 7-month old who wants to be held 24/7 but is always squirming and shifting his weight around forcing whoever is holding him to compensate for his movements. Good news is its not that bad and its definitely runnable. Soreness was probably worst Sunday. Its not a knee pain. I'm guess I strained my IT band on the lower lateral side of my knee. The best way to describe it is that its most noticeable if I try and kick-off my left shoe without untying the laces. That force applied to the heal of the left foot resonates up to the lower lateral side of the knee and kind of hurts. Also can feel it a little when I'm going down stairs. I could feel it a little while I was running, but the running didn't make it worse. I'm going to watch it over the next few days and take it a little easy. I wore a compression sleeve on my knee for most of the day.
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