My Knees Lie To Me

Anyone else have conversations with their knees?

Mine talk to me all the time. 

After my 16 miler on Monday, I was ready for a break.  I hobbled around the house yesterday like a spry 120 year old.  (That's why they call it a recovery day, right?)  But this morning I was laying in bed contemplating getting up for my workout.  I took a quick survey:

• quads? check. 
• hams? check
• calves?  check
• feet? check
• knees?  Mutinous uproar!  There is no way, we're still sore from what you did to us the other day. 

Well, I compromised and pushed back the workout by two hours.  And guess what?  My knees lied to me.  The first half a mile or so of warm-up they complained, but after that, they felt great!  In fact they feel better now than when I was laying in bed. 

I know we're supposed to listen to what our body is telling us, but sometimes my body lies.

So, today's workout consisted of a 1.1 mile warm-up, 4x800 intervals with 400m rest periods in between, and finishing with a nice 1.9 mile tempo-ish run. 

I got try out the new Garmin 305 today.  For my warm-up and cool-down, I just did the "start" and "stop" method.  But when I was at the track I programmed in my intervals and rests and the wonderful little watch (yeah, I know, most people think the Forerunner 305 is HUGE, but it is much smaller than the handheld (eTrex Legend) that I used to run with) told me when to run and when to rest and displayed a great little distance to go for each segment.  Yippee! 

Oh yeah, I also met another runner training for the Bidwell Classic.  Now I know two people in the race.