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Well I’ve successfully started running in the morning. It feels much better if you can do it.

I’m currently sitting at a 10:00/mile. This in itself is okay considering I ran the Calgary Marathon at an average pace of 10:02/mile. Here we are 5 weeks later and as much as my cardio has dropped, it hasn’t dropped all that much.

However, if I’m going to be able to run Honolulu in under 4:00:00 than I definitely have my work cut out for me. I’m got a little more than 5 months to cut back a whole 1:00/mile. That is ambitious. According to my running book I should be able to drop 0:11/mile every 4-6 weeks. Quick calculation and that means in 22-33 weeks I’ll be ready. I have 22 weeks.

Yikes.

I got to run for the first time since my marathon last night. It was better than I’d expected, however, my heart rate was quite high the entire time. I ran 2 miles in less than 10:00 pace.

I haven’t been able to run because when I had successfully rested from the race my knee began to hurt and only stopped hurting on Monday. Man have I wanted to run. My knee did start to bother me near the end of the run though.  I’ll just have to ease back into it.

I’ve lost a lot of ground.

Ran 4 miles in 38:32 with an average pace of 9:38/mile. (-11 Celcius)

My leg was bothering me before I left and the pain remained throughout my run, couldn’t seem to shake it. It was slower than I had hoped but still satisfactory. I don’t know how to feel about my long run tomorrow, I’ll be running 16 miles. It should take me about 2:30:00 but we’ll see.

Ran 8 miles in 1:15:39 with an average pace of 9:27/mile. (-13 Celcius)

Everything went surprisingly well. I didn’t plan on running it this fast but my heart rate % stayed quite low so once again I ignored the watch and just ran what was comfortable. Around mile 6 I began to feel my knee again, just slightly. The temperature really started to bother me today. I think I got a chill early on at work and still haven’t quite shook it yet.

Other than that, good run. Enjoyed it.

Ran 3 miles in 27:06 with an average pace of 9:02/mile. (-15 Celcius)

Good run, was supposed to run 9:30/mile but just ignored the watch and ran. Despite my 0:28/mile increase my heart rate still floated around 75% of max and for the most part stayed below it.

Ran 6 miles in 59:09.

By far not a fast run. My knee really started to bother me around mile 3, I had been successfully ignoring it until then. The pain came and went throughout the rest of the run. Nice night though.