Clyde's Comeback!

DC loop extended on inner trail and Secret st. Had just a little rain last night at about 9:30p.m. I was hoping it would cool things off. But was sad to see 79 F at 5 a.m. However there was a breezy and it didn't feel too bad out. Fetl much more comfy than Thursday. Pace was EZ. Stomach is up and down so much. Anywho got it in. TGIF

Ran from up by Veyo down through Gunlock and into Ivin's with the club. The good news was it was raining up at the start. Felt soo good. Everyone was complaining that the rain sucked and it was cold and that this was "crazy" to be out running...  for some reason it just bugged me. It's like what do you want? 85 F, hot and muggy. You get that kind of reaction with club members. Not to be mean but they don't appreciate "good" days like members of the Circle. Steve and Haydo were there and it helped settle me down as we took off and left the group to have them there. Anyways long rant. But I was pissy. On little sleep. Up at 3:40 and just wasn't in the mood.

So the first 7-10 miles we had a really nice rain to run in. Stephen kept pushing the pace. Fast and hard early. I knew I was gonna struggle early on as the warm up miles felt hard and my legs were just junk. After hitting mile 10 I got my drink and Gu. Kind of thought about trying some kind of workout. But I just could NOT get my legs going. 6 min pace felt like I was running 100's on the track. I tried for 3-4 miles to get some turnover and only hit like 6:02 on thos miles. So after that I bagged it. By 16.5 I wondered if I could even finish the run and wished I'd have had Hayden come back in his truck and pick me up after he got done. But I just kept plugging a long and finally finished. 6:24 avg for the run.

Need to mix it up or something. Gonna try and have a recovery/fix it week next week. Whatever I'm doing it's not working. Hopefully I can get on the bike or at least the spinner a few times because I'm not happy with how running is going right now.

20 min's on the elliptical before the run to try and loosen up the quads/ get warmed up.

10.2 miles around the DC loop. 70 f. It had rained some Sunday and then through the night. First time in forever that the ground was wet and the desert smelled fresh from the rain. It was semi muggy but I'll take the post rain muggy anyday over no rain at all. Legs were heavy and soreish throughout. Not feeling too crazy right now about training. Just have to put my head down and keep working... It'll usually turn around for the better down the road.

3.5 miles on the treadmill this evening.

30 min's on the spinbike. Just working on the quads... big knots... get out!

Tempos Tuesday-

Out early with the Circle o' Trust. 70 F at 5 a.m to start with. Temps were down. Humidity was up. 66-70% RH. We were all sweating like Logan- and that was on the warm up section.

3.5 mile warm  up out to the corner by the farm.

7 mile tempo @ 5:37 avg

Overall I felt pretty good today. First solid workout all summer. Times arent crazy fast but I was pleased I didn't want to bail out early and was able to commit to the full 7 miles. In fact I was almost ready to extend the tempo down to the bridge and add like .4 or so more. But Logan stopped at 7.0 and I just decided to call it. But wasn't totally DEAD... hopefully some progress has been made. timewilltell

Cooled down super slow for about 2.75 miles while listening to the two coaches talk about the upcoming season. Its fun for me to listen to them try to use Jedi mind games on each other. I'm just a neutral party. May the best team win boys. #fanofrunning

3 miles on the treadmill this evening.

30 min's on the spinbike. #sweatinglikeapig

DC loop. Temps at around 70 F and not as muggy. Pretty nice, pretty nice.

5.7 more treadmill miles this evening.

Different moring. I was up and out of the house by about 5:30. Took a GU and planned on doing some miles or 1, 2 mile sets. Started warming up and within about a mile I felt horrible. Mind, body, soul... everything felt like "junk". So I came back home. Didn't know for sure what I'd do the rest of the moring. Thought about the treadmill. spinnbike. elliptical. But never could get on one. After an hour or so I just decided to the DC loop with no "workout" involved. #justarun

Saw one of the wild cats down at the DC with a live baby rabbit in it's mouth. Kind of sad and cool all at the same time. The run was blah. blah. blah

4.2 miles on the treadmill tonight.
 

B-hills/ Secret St/ LV- Temps were amazing!!!!!!! 63 F. Everything else felt slow and dead. But I didn't care. The air was cool and clear. #goodweathergoodmood

2 miles on the treadmill this afternoon.

30 min's on the spiner

Full marathon Training run with the Circle and Stephen. Plus Haydo joined for the first 20 miles too. Met up at Logan's house in Ivins at 5 a.m. Then drove up through Gunlock and Veyo out to 26.2 miles. It was nice up where we started at 59F. The first 8-10 miles were VERY slow and EZ at what we will call LOL pace. Lots of smart, well thought out, wise and useful adult conversation going on. A few times one or more of us were laughing so hard we were almost on the ground. We had GU and drinks at mile 8 but still never picked up the pace. From like 12-16 we got a little faster but still very gabby. Had another GU and water stop at mile 16. From there in pace got a little more formal. But never into full on hammer mode. Fastest mile for me of the day was mile 23@ 5:43 pace. I wanted to just get in the downhill. But from the Y' down to Ivins I did want to run better than I did last week. Held a decent pace to Ivins park or basically mile 25. Then the Circle went over to the splash pad and got soaked in water. From there back to Log's house I just tried to semi cool down and relax. Felt good at the end. Not dead at all. Not really sore either. Much, much, much better run than last week on a similar route. The downhill legs are coming around... but there's lots of work to do.

2:48.46 total time or a 6:26 avg for the run

#specialmorningwithFRIENDS #BUDDIESCLUB

DC loop. Could not get out of bed this moring. Just felt trashed. Finally got out at around 7:30 and was thankful for the overcast that kept the sun away. Temps were warmer at 77F but it didn't feel too bad. Pace was very slow and I didn't feel very sore from Saturday but I did feel worthless. Legs were bricks. After 5.5 miles or so things started to feel better and I was able to get into a little grove to the finish. No goals this week for mileage. So we will see how that goes...

5.8 miles on the treadmill tonight. Got into some old skool Motley Crue videos on youtube. Rocked them for a while longer than I originally planned on staying on the machine. #girlsgirlsgirls #kickstartmyheart #wildside

4.4 mile warmup to Stucki

4.7 mile tempo

5.8 mile cooldown

Tried to hit a good tempo this morning... It had rained through the night which was awesome but it made it crazy humid and muggy. On the warm up I was dripping wet. But was still positive I could pull of something in the tempo.

5:39, 5:25, 5:22, 5:40, 5:40 for the .7

So I started off pretty smooth but then felt the legs kind of want to go. I let them. Logan was close through 2 miles but at 3 I couldn't hear him anymore. Then when I got to the U turn onto the trail I looked back and saw no one... I knew something was up. But thought I'd keep rolling since I was feeling ok. Got through mile 4 and felt pretty good on the trail. Then went past the power plant and in the lights couldn't see the guys at all. Once I got to the main road below Costco I was worried and stopped. Waited for a second then turned around to go see what was up. Logan came shortly and said he decided to shut it down. It was crazy muggy... like HELLAMUGGY. And none of us were recovered or ready for tempo after our marathon on Saturday. Dave came a little later and he was done tempoing too. So from there on back we just ran and pulled the plug on doing more "tempo". Overall I did feel pretty good. Could have kept it rolling for another couple for sure. But sometimes you just feel like enough is enough. #learntoliveanotherday

7 more miles this evening. Temps were doable with cloudy skis and a breeze. Just took it pretty EZ.

144 lbs this moring and 145 lbs tonight.

DC loop. Was slow and had a hard time finding any flow. Ran into Stephen ALHPAF on the trail about the time I started kind of getting something going. After stopping and chatting with him I was agian slow and stayed that way through the finish. Looks like rain... but nothing yet.

3.5 miles on the treadmill

20 min's on the spinbike to loosen up the legs... mostly the quads.

a few here and there. busy day. off to Torrey.

Warmed up by riding from Torrey up to the pool for 8.5 miles with the headlight. Used my sweet Ogio tri bag and hauled the rest of my gear up too. Then ran 2.2 miles before the race started at 7 a.m. Temps were 55F. Nice to run in. But cold coming out of the water. However the pool was warm.

The swim was kind of hard/sucky/idk. Sucked in way too much water on all the turns. Havent swam since STG 70.3 in 2013. But it was short and finally got over. I was second out of the pool. Passed the lead guy in transition but a chick passed both of us and she was first off on the bike.

The bike was an out and back 8 mile rolling hill course. I passed the girl after .05 miles. Tried to just ride as hard as possible. Knowing that if I killed the bike... even if I died. No one would out run me. In the end I put about 4 min's on the other riders chasing on the bike course.

Hit the run pretty solid too. Having had zero tri training with bike and running mixed the legs turned over pretty good. I didn't have a watch or garmin all day so there are no splits, overall time... nothing. forgot to charge. Ended up winning by around 10 min's. Then did some more running to cool down and road back to Torrey. So a ride, run, swim, ride, run, ride type morning.

Had fun. Entry was $5 and I got $15 for winning. So I guess I'm worth about $10 an hour for my efforts.

6 more miles tonight up Sandcreek and around Torrey. Temps are lovely.

Got up to Loa in time to do about 9 miles to warm up. Then the kids race started first so I got in another waiting. It's so very hard for me to run good here. The elevation of the race is from 7,100-7,300 ish. First mile climbs out out town. After about .6 into the race I started to feel totally "DEAD". Like done. Really struggled to even finish. Won but didn't have much of a field of seasoned runners to outrun.

Entry was $10. For winning I got a year of free entry to Wayne High sports activities... Not much use to me in STG. So I sold it to a friends dad for $30. A good deal for him and some spending cash for me to buy lunch with. :)

Went to the parade after where my Grandma who is 97 year old was honored as the Grand Marshal and the oldest living graduate from WHS. As WHS is celebrating it's 100 years... She graduated in 1935. The had her ride in a Razor side-by-side for the parade. She wore some cute white gloves like a princess. She was cute. I love her. She's actually my great-grandma but I lived with her and my great grandpa in high school. She's a trooper and a half. My kids have a great great grandma alive and still living by her self. Goes up and down stairs... steep stairs too. sheisawesome. highergenes

50.4 mile bike ride this afternoon with my friend Rocky. It was fun for us to ride here in the valley of our youth. It was hot and sunny though as we didn't get out until about 3p.m. I'm kind of sun burnt from a full day in the sun. The ride was pretty chill. like 19 mph avg.

DC loop. No watch but legs were not there. Totally slow and half a sleep. Ran into Stephen and chatted. Had a hard time going after that. Just trashed in general. #needsomerest

5.5 miles on the treadmill this afternoon.

Tempo Tuesday. 4.4 mile warm up to Stucki. It was super muggy again and around 72F. Just didn't have much today. Actually I haven't all summer. Really struggling to hit any positive workouts. Once we hit Riverside Dr there was bad headwind. Then I thought I'd finally get rolling once on the trail but it was muddy and had started raining so it was super slick. Anyways I did put in the whole 8 mile tempo but only hit a 5:45 avg during it. Logan looked good though and is running strong!

The cool down was all in a nice rain storm. Felt great. Been raining all moring too. Much needed and wanted water.

4.4 around LV tonight. Didn't really want to but couldn't pass up the cool afternoon after the rain storm. Just kept it EZ.

DC loop. Felt crazy humid this moring. Even though temps were low at 67F. I sweat my butt off this morning and looked more like Logan. :) Wore the garmin to see where my pace is on normal EZ type runs. Hit a 6:53 avg for the run. Felt really slow for the first 3 miles. Didn't ever feel smooth. Really need to find a way to dial it in better in the coming weeks. Force some kind of peak...

4.4 around LV tonight. I had rained about 20 min's prior. But I was late getting out. So I got the sunny/humind version. The run was short so it wasn't a biggy.

Tempo with Steven. Ran about 4 miles over to the DC and then a little more with the club to warm up hitting 5.16 total warm up miles.

Did the mayors loop tempo and told myself I'd go at least 6 miles of tempo...maybe 7. Mission accomplished! Went 7.1 miles @5:40 avg. A little faster than the other morning with the Circle and I felt much much more in control. Went out way fast with a 5:19 first mile but then settled down and ran pretty even the rest of the way.

3.14 mile cool down back home after.

Weight this week, M- 146.5, Tues- 144, W-143.5, Th- 143.0

My weigt is down... my miles have been solid all summer. So now I just have to find a way to run tempo/race pace. Marathon pace is the goal... and I don't think I'll pull off any good half's in the coming weeks. It seems half marathon pace is killing me. But if I can settle down maybe I can run MP.

Crazy, crazy, crazy dreams last night. Lots on my mind. Having a hard time processing what's happening.

Cooler morning but still feels more humid than reg... isn't the old saying "it's hot... but it's a dry heat?" idk but it's been pretty muggy this summer. Run was a sleepy mix of everything. Over to the freeway then up by Southgate golf course and around the dealerships. The back to the DC and home via the park. Felt pretty slow. 7:13 avg proved it to be true.

143.5 lbs

3 miles on the treadmill.

Big Mean Nasty Juan.

Goal was to do the Utah county guys workout. 3 mile warm up. 3 miles at 5:30 pace. 8 miles at 6:00 pace, 3 miles at 5:30 pace. Then cool down. That was the goal...

It's been cool all week. Muggy but cooler. Today ways 76F on the way over just before 4a.m and 73F when we were finished. &MuggyAsHell

We met at the DC and warmed up the river trail to River Road and one more mile for three total.

First 3 mile tempo set was @ 5:28 avg. Logan took it out fast... too fast. I hit 5:23, 5:23, and like 5:34. Once back at the DC I thought about just bagging the rest of the day.

Next was the 7.3 mile tempo @ a 6:01 avg down into Bloomington and around that loop and back. We talked and decided to just to this loop and be a little shorter than the planned 8 miles. No biggie here. Felt pretty strong through this section. Thought maybe we were going a little faster than the times showed... but itiswhatitis

Once we got back to the DC I had to stop for a potty break. Dave said he was just gonna keep rolling right into the last 3 mile section. So Logan, Steve and I stopped. Once we got running again the legs didn't want to go fast anymore. So we just did 7 min pace. Logan turned around after only a mile or so. Steve and I took it back up to 3.5 miles out. I had two more potty stops and finally decided I'd try some more tempo on the way back.

Felt so worn down and done that my main goal was to do like ONE more mile at around 5:50 pace... maybe make it to River Road for 1.5 miles.

However we got going and the legs seemed to turn over. And Steven made a solid push that I had to match and I hit the first mile in 5:11. Steve started to fall off around that point and I wanted at least one more. So I kept it going down past the Dr's Free Clinic and ended with a 5:22 avg for that 2 mile section to close it. Should have just done one more... but I was over joyed to have gone faster than 6:00 pace for more than a mile.

Cooled off 1.5 miles back to the DC and really felt wasted. Worked has hard this morning as I have in any workout in a long long time. Three workouts this week. Muggy temps. 100 mile week... Glad it's done.

143 lbs after drinking 2.5 bottles of fluid.

Did a run around the Draper trails area. Up in SLC Sunday night and Monday morning. Wanted to get up earlier and do a longish run but needed sleep more. Had a long day doing funeral stuff for baby Ryder. Funerals suck anyways... but baby funerals get ya. By the time I got home there was no time for a evening run. So nine it is today. Hoping for a happier day tomorrow and a good semi taper week with the half this weekend.

Tempo Tues

Warmed up out to Stucki Farms with the Circle. We all talked about how much fun we are having "training" right now. And how we want to do this FOREVER. ;) Temp was a 78F when we left the cul de sac at 4:50 a.m. I just wish once that on a "workout" morning we could get some cool crisp air.

Anyways after the warm up we got going. My watch battery died yesterday and it resets all the functions. So I didn't get any splits. But right out of the hole the pace felt fast. I felt like my breathing was off and was working pretty hard. For the most part we all were right with one another. Dave ran like he can this morning and put the hammer down. I finished about 3 seconds behind him. Logan had a rare "off" moring for tempos and around mile 6 Dave and I caught and passed him. He must have forgotten his roids today;).

Flet like I ran good. Pushed through some hard spots where my stomach felt like crap. Ended with a 5:37 min mile avg.

Cooled down back and my stomach was B. A. D.

DC loop this morning. It was the morning after... a hard hard hard rain. It was awesome and dropped a lot of water. The river was a good 4-5 times normal size and that was at like 7:30 this morning. Hours after the rain had stopped. It also really cooled the temps of leaving it around 63F. I enjoyed running around seeing all the sand, gravel and ish washed here and there from the nights storm. The running part was back seat to the "exploring".

7.1 miles around the middle B-hills loop and Secret St. Got in a few more tonight. Haven't got in a double all week and need a couple to keep things in check this week before the race on Saturday. So I just tried to run EZ and stay loose. It was only 91F and didn't feel too bad. Good weather to work on my tan.

Middle B-hills and Secret St. Awesome morning. About as good as you can draw it up here in STG in Aug. No watch but it had to be slow. Tried to take it EZ.

146 lbs. Seems like the body knows how to pack it on for race week...

7 miles on the treadmill this eveing.

Just a EZ run this morning. Actually felt really reallty flat and slow. 7:17 avg. Just kind of yuckish and heavy legs. Typical pre race crap-o-la.
 

My plan all summer was to do this new race as my STG tune up. The last couple weeks I've been kind of second guessing myself and wishing I'd done Hobble or TOU half. Been soo negative about my choice to run this. First year race... Hot temps... Pretty fair if not challenging course after the first 4 miles. But in the end I'm happy with my choice to stay here and run. Hats of and special thanks to Steven and Kendra and the running store for a super job orginizing what will be a great annual race here in town.

I had my alarm set for 3:30 a.m to give myself enough time to "wake up" and take care of business for the 6 a.m starting time. However I woke up at 2:30 to go to the restroom and never could relax and fall back a sleep. So at 3:15 I got out of bed. Got dressed and went outside to jog a mile to get the process "going". It felt hotter than it's been. Temp said 71F and I was sweating by the time I got back home after only a mile. Bad sign... Went through the rest of my nomal pre race morning ish and left to catch the 4:45 bus up to the start.

Dave and I did 3.2 miles of warm up and it again felt hot up there. More negative thoughts. But I wanted to make the best of the day and before the gun went off I had ample potty stops in  and felt ready to do my best.

From the gun Dave and I took of and never had anyone else to worry about.

1. 5:06- This is just a fast steep downhill. 

2. 5:06- More of the same downhill but a good climb for .3ish at the end. So this mile could have been smokin.

3. 5:16- net downhill but with some rolling. Feeling ok but at times I feel like I may be going too fast. But don't dare back off because Dave is right there pushing on the gas.

4. 5:10- One small little up through the houses and then some fast downhill to the bottom and river. Dave and I are together as we start the begining of the trails.  Saw Mik'L and Myler and got a drink and Gu.

5. 5:22- Mesquito trail. This is the best I've EVER run this section of trail. Started to pull away from Dave.

6. 5:24- End of Mesquito trail over to the townhomes by the river trail. Again this is the best I've ever ran through here. And as we have dropped down by the river I'm not as hot anymore. It's still dark out too.

7. 5:27- Down the river trail and through the construction to about the T' where the other trail connects. This was a solid mile through here as I hit plenty of mud through the construction area and... slowed to try and get it off my shoes once the trail was clear.

8. 5:25-  Through the big turn on the river trail and ended just a little abover where our tempos end. Starting to get more light. Still feeling pretty strong. Haven't once looked at the watch or pace. So I could have been running #whoknowswhat

9. 5:31- Down uner River road and up to about the Dr's free clinic.  Got another drink at the Dr.s Free pull out. Feeling strong. No stomach issues. Smiles.

10. 5:37- From Dr's free down to about .4 above the DC.  Saw Myler again yelling at me.

11. 5:34- Down through the DC and over the bridge under the freeway.  For the first time while going over the wood bridge I get to look back and see where Dave is... I don't see him. Puzzled because I thought I had just heard his footsteps behind me.

12. 5:33- Basically from the freeway down a mile. Still felt good and although I wasn't being pushed I wanted to keep pushing myself. Felt like I could. Legs felt strong.

13. 5:37- Down to Man-o-war bridge and off the trail. 90 degree trun east to the park. Had a hard time keeping the pace twisting through the parking lot and making the turns. But at no point did I feel I was tired or ready to stop digging.

.13 @ 5:24 pace. Through the dirt and onto the grass. No struggling finish. Felt great! Awesome finishline stuff too.

So for very low expectations... I came out pretty happy with the morning. Felt like it was a much better race effort than I gave at DesNews half in July. And I feel this is a slower overall course than that one... but conditions today were better here than they were there. Cooler and no headwind. I'm happy to get some positve running mojo going.... I needed it. Decided this moring to just #Goforit!

4 mile cool down with Dave. Now the stomach is starting it's post race junk and I had multipal trips to the potty for the rest of the day.. FML for sure on that one.

50 min's on the elliptical. Worked on keeping the legs from getting stiff. They seems pretty good today but sitting around all day would have been bad.