Shut-In and moving forward

After a long few months of slowly recovering from  nagging knew injury, I’ve been slowly working my distance back up.  I’ve refrained from all speedwork, and my knee feels better, but it’s still not 100%.  I ran Shut-In this year with a lot less training, but had my best time ever (3.25.44).  I was able to run the entire section before the dreaded 151 crossing (and managed to fall pretty hard once), and I think that was the difference in picking up an extra 5 minutes.  The last part was pretty brutal as always, but I went up with a pretty brisk pace.  Well, it felt brisk anyway.  On the last downhill, the guy behind me was barreling down the hill, really out of control, so I let him pass.  Better to drop a spot than be taken out from behind with .2 miles to go.

I’m going to move my training log over to mapmyrun.com and see how that goes.  It looks like it will calculate mileage for me.

I found this by way of another running blog. It’s the last 1.8 miles of Shut-In (running from right to left) – see the 151 crossing just over the top to the Mt. Pisgah parking lot.

I get dizzy and nauseated just looking at the profile.