Bittersweet.

I began the day as I have this whole break. Waking up every 6 1/2 minutes to the snooze button until I decide to finally wake up at 10. As I looked through the blinds I felt a wave of laziness just come over me, it looked hot outside. It's the summer so I shouldn't be that surprised. So I pulled myself out of bed, laced up the shoes and set off again into the hot California sun to get those miles in.

As soon as I began running my golden retriever, Bruce, began chasing me. I had to turn around so he wouldn't get lost but as I was walking him back I came up with a great idea, bring Bruce on my run. So I went inside, got his leash and I now had a running pawtner. He surprised me today, he was well behaved and was cruising at mid 7 minute pace. Looks like I'll be doing this again soon.

My regular run for the day did not go as well for me. It was set to be a 7 miler with Gustavo but it turned out to be a big challenge. As soon as I hit my first couple of steps I knew something was not right. Every time I bent my knee it would send a shocking pain through my system. I spent pretty much the rest of the run trying to deal with the pain. It was a nice run don't get me wrong, besides almost getting killed by a woman driver, again. The nice thing is I feel as though I haven't done anything.