I just got back in from a 10.5 miler. The first 8.5 went great, felt fine, and was picking the pace up beginning around mile 5. Well, I don't know what happened but I felt my left knee give out on the outside and then had a sharp pain. It went away after a couple of minutes so I tried running again. Went a little bit, felt the pain, so I walked. Repeated twice. After that I decided to just walk the last mile, mile 1/2 home. I've got ice on it and have already started the anti-inflammatories. I'm going to baby it this week and just see how it goes. Hopefully it's not my meniscus, but with where it's hurting, and it feeling like it locked up on me once, I'm afraid it might be.

Kb - it sounds like you're doing great. Keep it up. The wind sucks to run in.

Shiraz - I used to love running in the snow, just so relaxing. Now if we would only get a little snow in Alabama. I know, I'm dreaming!