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[[File:Yosemite.JPG|right|thumb|500px|Running in Yosemite in October 2014. (One of the advantages of [[Running With A Smartphone]] is you always have a camera with you.)]]
This is not the log of each workout I do, but rather a higher level summary of what's happening with my training overall. For a detailed log, I use [[SportTracks]] and publish to [[Dailymile]] at http://www.dailymile.com/people/JonathanS.
==September 2016==
I started September in Scandinavia, including hiking the classic Kungsleden trail. As a result I didn't do much running for the first couple of week until I returned home. My knee had been great the whole time I was away, but soon as I started running at home, my knee caused me trouble. I don't know if I injured it on the journey home or what, but my knee became painful and massively swollen after my first run. This time I seem to have both ITB issues and medial knee pain. I've reduced my mileage down to just 3 miles a day and some walking to give it chance to heal up. As of the end of September it's recovering slowly but it is recovering.
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Miles'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Hours'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Avg Pace'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Num Runs'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Longest'''
|-
| September 2016||117||17||8:48||24||11
|-
| August 2016||162||24||8:56||24||16
|-
| September 2015||231||35||9:09||23||54
|}
==August 2016==
The first two weeks of August saw great improvement in my knee and I was able to ramp up my distance to 16 miles just before I went out to Scandinavia. I fitted a little bit of running in while I was away, but not a whole lot so the month is lower than I'd otherwise have liked.
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Miles'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Hours'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Avg Pace'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Num Runs'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Longest'''
|-
| August 2016||162||24||8:56||24||16
|-
| July 2016||179||28||9:13||16||18
|-
| August 2015||307||44||8:41||34||21
|}
==July 2016==
July has been a surprisingly good month for me. While my mileage is vastly down on where it was last year, it's beginning to rise again, and my knee feels like it is slowly healing up. While I clearly have a torn meniscus, I'm far less convinced that that's actually the direct cause of my symptoms. If I deeply flex my left knee while it's bearing my weight, then I will get a pain from the area where the meniscus is torn. This typically only happens when I stepped down from a height of more than 12"/30cm. the rest of the time my knee issues are further forward on the medial size, and I suspect there are other issues. I've been gradually building my mileage up, and running 3-4 days per week. I'm now able to run ~16 miles three times a week without any issues from my knee, though the heat and humidity in North Carolina is still brutal. I've been able to start testing the [[BSX]] by doing some high-intensity treadmill runs and even the occasional [[Treadmill Descent]]. In addition to the longer runs, I've also been hiking with a 25lb/12Kg pack in the preparation for the Kungsleden hike in northern Sweden. We've been hiking for 6-10 hours on a Saturday, which does not leave time to do much of a run that day. I think I would be doing even better if I wasn't battling the heat and humidity; this is one of the worst summers I can remember for running.
