100K

Mega hill run near my mom's house. A good 2 - 3 miles of uphill running with some killer hills. GPS says an overall 7:27 pace. Totally stoked on that considering how much uphill there was.  Have done this 3 times now and each time It gets easier. Temperature was cloudy and cool, that probably helped since the other 2 times were 90+ and full sun. Heart was not pumping as hard to get up the steepest hill. Pretty strong overall uphill pace, and downhill and flat I was jammin. Really happy with this run. Feelin good. Gettin ready for the Wine Country Marathon on Oct. 11th.

Fast 5 miles.  36:18  Through the park. Left knee not liking it. Not sure why it was acting up. Was running this the same way I had been with the short stride. Going to switch to my old nikes and see if the shoes are the problem. I'll be damned if the $30 nike's perform better than the Pegasus (like they did against the Nimbus 10)

Strapped on my old $30 nikes that never gave me problems with my knees. No problems this time either, and my stride was bigger than normal too. I don't get it!!! cheap running shoes are better for me, this is ridiculous!  Oh well, saves me money. 

Tried to go for a sub 6:00 mile.  ran a 6:05 , blah!  Could have made it a sub 6:00 if I had been paying attention to the stop watch, but it was dark. I definitely had it in me to shave off 10 - 15 more seconds at least. I thought I had it though. Oh well. Ran another 5 miles after that. Long run on Sunday.

6 miles 8:00/mi pace. Wearing the old nikes and my knees were fine. I'm pretty sure that the problem with these more expensive shoes has been that they are more cushioned and more flexible. And for some reason or another my knees like a rigid and firm shoe.

 Only other thing I can think of is that switching shoes every 2 or 3 weeks will keep my knees in good shape. I dunno what else could be the problem other than running too much. But that doesn't seem like it's the case, considering it goes away after putting on different shoes.