Rest Knee-ded?

Baby, it's cold outside. I rested on Monday as I planned. Today, I got out to do the 5 miles on the docket. There was little wind, but it was about 1 degree. Brrrr.

I was running about 7:40-8'ish through about 3 or so, when I did notice my left knee pain crop up. It's not excrutiating; rather more like a chronic annoyance at this point. During the last couple, I walked a few steps to see how it felt. I finished no problem, but I don't feel very race ready.

I dunno, maybe I just need to rest this thing up. I am contemplating now doing little or no running before Sunday's race. Maybe a solid 4 days of rest will do it some good. I can get on the bike once or twice before Sunday. And what difference in my time will any additional running do me? I should be in decent enough shape to run respectably.

After the race Sunday, maybe I will cool it for another 6 days until my group long run on Saturday the 16th. This would leave me 17 weeks to prepare for Boston, which is manageable. So maybe I won't PR there. All along, I've said I would be thrilled just to make Boston - even if I trotted a 4-hour marathon.

Additionally, I will go for a P.T. screen on Dec 18, which is the earliest I can go after we get back from Vegas.

I want to nip this knee thing in the bud. If I am going to have to skimp on training to heal up, I'd rather do it when it's sub-zero temp's outside - not to mention being able to celebrate the holidays a little.