I got up early this morning to pound the pavement.  Ouch, my knee hurts when I say that!  Seriously, I could feel some low grade pain in my left knee during my run.  As I try to get into a weekly running routine, I want to minimize the chances of having my knee stop my running cold like it did during my marathon training.  So I am slowly building my base running in zone 2.  Although I could feel some pain in my knee, the good news is that it didn’t lock up on me.

The next time I run during a week day, I am going to have to take my cold knee wrap to the office so I can ice my knee a bit.  The low grade knee pain that I got during the run lasted the whole day.  It’s okay, though, because I am happy that my knee actually held together for the run.

When I got home I strength trained my chest.  I used a combination of dumbbell bench presses and my Tower 200.  It is hard to wrap your brain around these resistance bands giving one a good workout.  However, when you attached multiple bands to the handle, trust me, you get plenty of resistance.  I got a pretty good pump out of the workout.