Summary Data
Total Time (h:m:s)	0:09:56	8:18 pace
Moving Time (h:m:s)	0:09:53	8:18 pace
Distance (mi )	1.19
Moving Speed (mph)	7.2 avg.	9.4 max.
Elevation Gain (ft)	+25 / -23
Temperature (°F)	55.4°F avg.	55.4°F high
Wind Speed ( mph)	SSW 10.9 avg.	SSW 11.5 max.

Start Time: 01:16:00 PM CST

The actual route is available at Bikely

This is the second time that the battery on my watch has come up dead when I started my workout---the last time was in the Fall on a ride to Indiana. As I recall, that ride felt rather freeing without data---today it was disappointing. Some people get overwhelmed by workout data and need to have days when they are not actively monitoring their HR, etc. In my case, I feel like I have lost something when I do not have some data. I think that I function in similar ways with books---once I read a book that I enjoy, I want to have it on my shelf so that I can look back at it, consider interesting passages, re-read chapters, re-live the experience of reading it (not every book qualifies, but the 5k or so books in our house suggests that Amy and I have enjoyed more than a few books---although she is more inclined than I to get rid of books). It's funny, but I love looking at the routes I run on Google Earth, reliving the run late at night---even though most of the time, the run is almost identical to the one I did two days before. Somehow it never gets old and it sure beats television (except maybe 30 Rock which cracks me up).

Without a clock, I do not know how I did, but it felt like an 8:30 pace through most of it and about an 8:00 or a little better for the last mile. Since this is only the second time that I have gone out on my run from work, I did not have a previous route at 4M to go on. I took my best guess based on previous runs and overall feeling for 4M and when I mapped the route on Bikely (link above) to check the distance---it was AMAZINGLY close (4.1 M). Spent a lot of time dodging small ponds on Chicago streets where leaves had plugged the storm drains preventing an adequate draining. Sidebar: I love Chicago, but if I could change one thing, it would be to get rid of the haphazard, orange-sign street sweeping and move to set monthly sweepings (in St. Louis---Soulard anyway---there are signs that say no parking on the first x day of each month). If little StL can do it, we certainly figure it out.

I think I have isolated the pseudo-knee pain and it is indeed back pain. I was pretty-well recovered from it last week and it came back a little yesterday and moreso today. What changed? I have been carrying my overloaded messenger bag which puts pressure on my right shoulder and causes my left knee to hurt. I love my messenger bag, so this is a bad deal, but I will just have to learn to live with the backpack.