Saturday

Legs still feel terrible.  Had trouble just getting out of bed, had trouble standing trying to put in my contacts.  My knees try to buckle so I end up having to stand with slightly bent knees.  Does not feel awesome.

First:
Got up early and did my usual 9mi group trail run.  There wasn't as many guys out as there had been, even though the weather was beautiful.  Sunny, mid 60s, and with somewhere around 80% humidty.  Felt great.  Unfortunately, legs did not feel great.  We started in three groups, a fast group with a new girl and a few of the faster guys, followed by the mid-pack group with me and another guy, and then a slower group for the older guys.  Within maybe 10 minutes, the fast group was out of ear shot.  With rested legs, I probably would have been able to stick with them for at least the first half, maybe first 2/3, but not the whole thing.  They finished a couple minutes faster than my fastest time.

I chugged along keeping up with the other guy in my group.  The up-hill and flat sections didn't feel so bad, the down-hills hurt, a lot.  My knees kept trying to buckle.  About 2/3 of the way through, the other guy I was with turned off on another trail so I ended up finishing by myself.  Surprised that my time wasn't that bad, somewhere around a 1:12.

The new girl seems to be pretty freakin fast.  I haven't seen a girl out there be able to run with the front group like she did, and she did that after running the early 5:40 9mi lap.  Sounds like she is a grad student at USC.  Hopefully she'll keep coming out to run with us.  We haven't had any women run with our group in a good 6 months.  Also she is attractive.

Got home, ate breakfast, did my usual Saturday morning chores.  Then tried to do sets of ring dips in the garage.  Elbow was not feeling it so I stopped after a couple sets.