Clyde's Comeback!

Drove to the DC and then just ended up running the regular DC loop... Felt totally different starting and stopping there. Think I'm starting to feel sick.

Tempo loop with the Circle of Trust. Warmed up for 3.6. Felt sick all night and didn't feel great about running this morning. But I didn't want to miss the workout. Body aches, and shivering had already started. Through the warm up I felt so so and just decided I'd start the tempo and if I totally died and had to lay down in the road then so be it.

Today was the first time in weeks or maybe since STG marathon that I felt cramping in the legs. Felt it come on hard at mile three in the calves and quads. Last week for the most part my tempo felt pretty smooth. Today seemed labored almost throughout. And again I got stomach issues at mile 5 (almost the same spot as last week) but was able to fight off stopping until 6.2 miles into the tempo. But then I had to GO.

After stopping I hit another 6:00 mile down to River Road but my heart wasn't in it anymore. After that I just started to jogg the remainder of the run.

Feel even sicker now... like garbage actually.

5:34 avg for the 6.2 tempo miles

 Splits- 5:37, 5:23, 5:29, 5:44, 5:34, 5:37 and the .2 at 5:57 pace but I'd already stopped tempoing.

New Years day run with the Circle and James. Met at Logans house at 6:30 a.m with a chilly 26F. Did Logan's favorite "riding dirty" loop run all over the world and then some. Went to bed last night feeling pretty crappy. Woke up about 2 a.m and felt like I got ran over by a garbage truck... 97 or so times. But for some reason I just didn't want to skip the run today so I left the alarm set. Woke about an hour early to take some cold meds. Never tried that pre run before.

Anyways the run was ok. No one wanted to go hard anyways. So that helped with the pace EZ all day. About mile 16 Dave said he wanted to start the new year off right and then his shirt came off... a mile or so later Logan pulled his... and I'm a sucker for peer preasure so mine came off too with James to follow. We got some good looks from passing cars on a Jan 1st morning running shirtless back to Logans house. Being sick I'm sure it was stupid.... but I can't do much of anything right as of late so- When in Rome. Isn't that what they say?

6 miles on the treadmill this morning. Today was the sickest I've felt. When I first got out of bed I decided that I'd just not run at all. But then after about 15 min's I thought a good sweat out indoors might help move the crap out of my system. Felt super yuck almost the entire run. Weight was 151 lbs before and 148 lbs after the 6 miles. So 3 lbs of sweat out and now I can add back 3 lbs of Nyquil.

P.M. 8 miles tonight. Middle B-hills loop extended through the Secret St and into LV. Felt good enough to go run... but pretty much like sh*& while running. Kept the pace honest but it felt like work for the first 3 miles. There was no way I'd have been able to do mile's tonight. Sick of being sick and feeling depressed. Maybe someone could just run me over tomorrow morning. Make it look like an accident:).

Just a funky morning. Woke like I wanted to feel good and start the day off better than some before. Headed out running but my hip hurt like CRAZY and the head cold is still there so I was pretty dizzy. So after only 1.2 out I just decided to turn around and come home. Got home and couldn't call totally off so I jumped on the treadmill after doing a few hip routine stuff. 4 miles on the machine actually felt pretty good. Hip was runnable and again it just felt good to sweat.

Did you know that a Phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of it's predecessor?

P.M. 7 miles around the middle B-hills loop and Secret st finish. 6:37 avg. Hip hurts but I can't stop now.

DC run with the Circle and Stephen. We planned on running the STG half course but after only .5 into the run we'd already taken a different path... Steve's driving:(.  So the half route got all jacked up and we just ran the meat and potatos of it. Then extended back down into Bloomington for that loop and back. Felt pretty flat most of the run. Just been a battle all week with everything. But around mile 16 I was starting to feel antzy and just wanted the run to be done. So worked into a 6:14 on that mile. Then 5:25, 5:30, 5:25 to finish off the last three miles to 20. Did a short .6 cool down around the parking lot. Felt good to hurt myself on the closing miles. Needed that push. Might be kind of getting over the head cold sickness.