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BST north four miles from the office and back. Was tired by the end because I am not so healthy. 74 minutes.

I just signed up for my 20 year high school reunion today. It is just over two months away. Maybe a goal to lose 15 pounds by then by getting in some sweaty summer miles. It peels off quickly if I am consistent.

Another 8 miler at lunch. This time my favorite emigration out and back. I did a few 80 step accelerations but far from max speed. I again died in mile 8. Running 8 miles is no longer easy for me but I should be able to catch up fast. 8:05 average pace.

I'm down a pound from yesterday's reading. Two weeks to go I suppose.

Took a day off for Charlie's last day of 1st grade. Alone now and ran a nice loop from home to 2nd ave up to 11th via V St and down memory grove. Then cut across to the capitol and home. Felt ok. Can feel the fatigue of three days of running and a small twinge under my left knee almost like a high shin splint. 7:57 pace.

I enjoyed running in some wind and light rain very much. You miss the weather when you aren't running. You just don't experience it the same way when you're not spending a lot of time in it. 

Down another pound. Weighing myself at the same time each morning.

At about 10 am, I ran from home up wall around the capitol up bonneville road up city creek and turned around just past the water station. On the way back, I split off on the city creek trail and maintained the 9:20 pace I had been running on the way up. I needed the slower pace to complete my longest run timewise in some time. I felt ok not good on the way down and my legs didn't really slow until mile 11. Ran down memory grove and along n temple through marmalade and finished in 1:52. So 9:20s pretty much the whole way. 

I can still feel a minor knee pain on the left side but I am guessing that is nothing. I've never had knee pain and Joel at Tosh said that if haven't had it by now, its' not likely to ever happen. 

That's 9 miles on average with 900 feet of climb on average over the past four days. More than I'd done the previous four weeks and I am holding up ok. Trying to decide whether to run tomorrow or skip a day. I think I will go back down to 50 minute runs on the weekdays and up the weekend run a bit each week. Hopefully I will hold together. I've decided that running with some pain will have to be the norm. Better than not running at all. I will also continue to try to fix it in my half assed way.