Notes
Beautiful day and perfect conditions for a run in the Hill Country State Natural area. Not sure if I was still down from my 100 mile effort at the Bear a month earlier, my lack of focus in training post-Bear, my knee (definitely some of it), or what... but I never got going! Oh, I had a good run, good results, but should have been in the 10's given my conditioning and the conditions of the day/course.
The right knee started hurting on the first downhill (by about 5:10 am). It was nasty rocky and all around rude, but still I should be bombing down it rather than picking my way so very carefully (a tactic I would repeat time after time throughout the day) so as not to wake the beast. This is a carry-forward of the downhill challenge I had at the Bear, never really getting into the swing of it. Before the end of the day, my right hip and lower back were beginning to be more painful than the knee. I am totally out of ideas on what to do. Will have to put some serious thought into which way to go from here. This is worse than last year when I decided to take an extended break... that worked out OK, but I really don't want to add 20 lbs and then have to work my way back into ultra distances after that.
We'll just have to wait and see.