Revolt!

My body is pretty annoyed with me right now. Not in a "that's it. I'm shutting down" kind of way. More of a "What? I thought we were taking a break from this running stuff" kind of way. Apparently the short layoff that I had at the end of the year, set me back quite aways. While I do have an occasional good run here and there, for the most part, much of what I'm doing right now is slow and somewhat painful. On the bright side, with no clear cut goal races right now, I have time to take things slowly, build mileage and not rush it.

Today was two runs of 9 miles each, with about a 4 hours break between the two runs. I can't say I set any speed records on either runs, but I did survive and most importantly, nothing really hurt (except for my pride a little). I have been experiencing some knee pain in my left knee and some soreness in my hip flexors. At this point, I'm just going to monitor them and hope that as I get loosened up, these little nagging pains will just go away. Based on past experience, they usually do.