I felt good on my run Monday morning except for a little tightness in my left calf from running 4 miles in the VFFs last Friday. A couple of hours after my run, my left knee started hurting fairly significantly on the outside - ITB area. So I didn't run or do any exercise yesterday and was quite depressed all day about the knee. I did some stretching during the day and iced the knee last night and it felt better this morning than it did yesterday, though it's not 100%. Under normal circumstances, I would have run 8 miles today and done the shred. Because of the knee, I decided not to run again today, but with the extra time that gave me, I did my Jillian Michael's No More Trouble Zones video instead of the shred because it is almost an hour long, while the shred is only 20 minutes. Also, this video focuses on strength instead of doing a mixture of strength and cardio like the shred does. I didn't get up quite early enough to do the whole video before the drive to seminary, so I had to pause it in the middle and drive to seminary, and then finish it when I got home. There was only one exercise in the whole thing that hurt my knee, and I only did it for about a minute. I've got an appointment with my ART guy this afternoon. I'm hoping with rest, stretching, ice, and ART, I can nip this thing in the bud and get back to running soon. On February 1 I start a marathon training plan for the Newport Oregon marathon. I'd rather take time off now than once I start that training plan. I hope I can get this issue resolved by then.
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