Lunch - 5 easy miles on the treadmill, 8:00 average pace. Wore my HR chest strap today and used the integrated Polar HRM function of the treadmill to monitor my HR during the run. Average HR of 150, max HR of 158 (I am not counting a 1-second blip where my HR jumped to 161 once). Run felt very good. Over the course of the 5 miles, my HR slowly crept up from the 140's to the low-mid 150's by the end. Very interesting. Since I went back on my declaration yesterday from the previous day that I would not do any speedwork, I am going to pledge to myself to NOT do any more speedword before Del Sol. Getting injured a week prior to the relay would be a very bad thing. PM - 1.5 miles with Samuel, average pace of 10:38/mile. He has been complaining of late of a pain in his left knee - when he points to it, the pain is just below his kneecap, towards the inside. Couldn't find anything wrong - we will see what happens over the next few days. After running with Sam, ran 1.1 miles with Joseph at 11:20 pace to Fry's and back so that we could pick up some alfredo sauce for the younger boys for spaghetti tonight - they really love it, and goodness knows Joey needs to get some meat on his bones . . . he did very well, in spite of worrying that he would get tired.
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