I noticed some bruising on my left knee yesterday evening while at a concert (featured music by John Sousa as well as some additional patriotic songs played by the Ames Municipal Band). I'm not sure where it came from, and it doesn't hurt, so I am not too worried. Just to be safe I wore normal shoes when running today (albeit shoes with over 2,000 miles on them). I will watch the knee over the next few days to make sure nothing is wrong. My whole family also came down with food poisoning yesterday evening. The likely culprit was food we took to the parade yesterday afternoon. It sat out in the sun all afternoon, and we didn't end up eating it until we went to the concert later on in the evening. Both kids started throwing up in the evening after we got home, while Kimia and I both felt nauseous. I ended up throwing up at 5:30 am. As a result of everything I already mentioned I decided to take today's run really easy. I told Kimia before I left the house that I felt as if I would throw up while out running. Unfortunately I was right. I stopped at 0.75 miles to void some liquid nastiness from my southward region, I stopped a second time just past 3 miles to void a different type of liquid nastiness from my northward region, and finally I stopped at about 4.25 miles for a third and final time to void from my southward region again. I contemplated cutting the run short because I felt gross, but ultimately I decided to just keep running slowly and to finish the run. I ended up running 9 miles in 1:16:08. After finishing the run I drank some water which brought on more nausea. I ended up lying down for a while which seemed to help some. Hopefully I will be able to get some food down later on today, because I am hungry.
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