Last night, I stretched for 45 minutes.  I noticed that whenever I do an exercise/stretch routine that I get off of the internet and it specifies some time it oughta take, I always take much longer.  Much of the time, I don't see how getting it done that fast is even possible.  Anyhow all of my stretching should have taken 15 minutes, but it didn't (see above).  I had an ITBS stretch included and after I was done, it didn't seem to make any difference in the twinge in my knee.  I had gone through a few ITBS links I got on a thread at coolrunning.com and it suggested an inner thigh exercise (the inner thighs apparently don't get worked much, if at all, during running, so it causes a muscle imbalance).  I did 16 of them and the twinge was gone...GONE!  I know it makes no sense, but it's true.  Perhaps it was all just coincidental.  Whatever it was, I as happy.  Although, I'm still waiting for it to reappear during my run tomorrow.

Today, I tried to do this strength program I got off Runner's World's site.  It was going well at first, but there were two exercises that I'm not certain I'm doing right, plus I ran out of time.  It was supposed to take 25 minutes max, but took me (without even doing all of the sets) about 50 minutes.  I'm hoping that now that I am familiar with it, it will go faster because you're supposed to do these exercises before running.  But with that and stretching (a must), I will definitely have to wake up at 4 AM sharp.  Sigh.