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Well, looks like I'm sidelined from running for a while. My knee pain has got the best of me, at least for a little while. It was the worst it's been in years yesterday. I want to run for life, not just for right now, so I'll take it down to walking, dancing and yoga for my cardio for now. I have a race at the end of December, and I'm hoping to be able to train for it, but I will walk it if I have to. I see a sports doc next week, and I hope he will help. I know I sound really normal and rational...

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I'm feeling really bitchy and sad and generally over-emotional today. Hormones, of course, but the knowledge that it's chemical doesn't make the feelings any less powerful. I'm on supplements that have helped with the moodiness, but I still get a couple of days that are really not fun. Hard for me, hard to be around me. I'm supposed to run today, but I don't feel like it, and I don't want to force myself to run when I don't feel like it, because I love to run and don't want to feel like I have...

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I'm so disappointed right now. My knee hurts so much I can't run. I know that this is at least in part related to my cycle, because I track my knee pain and it is always worse in the week before my period. But it's really bad this time and I'm not even doing that much exercise. I have an appointment with a new sports medicine doc in about a week and a half. I'm hoping that the knee pain will subside enough soon so that I can run in the meantime. This sucks. Last week, no problem at all -...

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I was thinking this morning about the adaptability of human beings to almost any psycho-social situation (no, really, I was). Specifically, I was thinking about Britney Spears and the insanity of the paparazzi surrounding her on a daily basis. Britney gets a lot of criticism for being somewhat friendly with her pap stalkers, even dating one of them. But human beings work within the reality we are given. She lives in unbelievable circumstances - certainly, there are only a handful of people in...

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I just got back from my most beautiful and hardest long run to date. It is so gorgeous out this morning, the light is warm and sunny, with just a slight nip in the air. I covered 17.5 km (the warm up and cool down was 1.5 km of that). I did 8 intervals of ten minutes each, with walking breaks in between, and then finished the whole thing of with shorter fun run intervals. Although the "fun" part was in name only at that point! I sweated out about 4 lbs. Most of the workout I ran...

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