Clyde's Comeback!

12.3 mile run this morning up to new overpass and down around GS. I felt pretty good this morning after the long weekend of racing there was a little left over soreness when I went uphill  today but nothing too bad. 

(White Cumulus 111.8)

8.2 mile run this afternoon. Up the trail to the powerline, over to water tank and down around the industrial park. As far as running goes I felt pretty good this afternoon. I was just trashed from a long day at work.

12.3 mile run this morning. Same run as yesterday morning. Nothing too flashy going on. I kept the pace right around 7:15 min mile and just tried to relax and run. Long day planned at work.

(Stratus Red 124.1)

7.8 mile run this afternoon. Good ol' Powerline/GS loop. You can tell spring is in the air with the warmer weather... however it also brings wind and I hate wind.  Had a non-typical day at work. We ended up doing a bid for a putting green is someones back yard (typical) but they also wanted a cement pad placed right next to it. So I spent most of the day wheelbarrowing cement into a backyard and then finishing it. It sucked and now I'm officially drained. The good news is we've only did that twice in about a year and a half.

 (Blue Stratus 192.25)
 

12.3 mile run this morning. Same as the prior two mornings. Not a bad run. It was a little cooler out this morning, once I got to the golf course there was ice forming on the sprinklers. I'll be working down in Mesquite today so I'm going to try and run in off Utah hill this afternoon/ evening on the way home.

(Blue Cumulus 194.2 )

8.2 mile run this evening. Well it was a long day down in Mesquite and I was planning on running 10 or so miles back into Ivans on the way home... however we ate at a casino buffet before leaving town and one thing I really struggle with is saying no to free food in mass quantities. So I did partake and then had to wait a few hours to run. Once home I decided to run from my house down past Costco and onto the river trail down to the other trail that drops under St. James place and then back up to my in-laws house. It looked like it should be a pretty good run... Well, well, well Clyde pays the price again. The buffet hadn't even began to digest especially the pork tamales. Again I dry heaved and felt the pain in my stomach. I used Jedi mind tricks to try and keep it down and not spew all over the bike path. At one point I just had to stop and take deep breaths and wait a few before I could go on. Then when I got to River Road up at the end of St. James Place the Jedi stuff wasn't working any more and I had to stop running and just walk it out for about .2 miles. Finished up and just laid on the floor at my in-laws for about an hour trying to decide why I just don't say no to drugs ( drugs being the buffet).

Anyways another lesson learned at least until next time.

(Red Stratus 132.3)

12.3 mile run. Regular morning run. Pretty chilly out this morning. I felt much better this morning that I did last night on the run. So far this week I've been able to feel pretty good even though I've been working everyday and keeping the mileage up. Hopefully I can fight off the mid to end week "Wall".

(White Cumulus 124.1)

Met up with the club for a 10 mile run this evening. We hit the trail loop up above Red Hills golf course and then dropped down into town. There we were running down in the direction of the temple and Steve said we should do a fartlek down to the temple. So I took off for about a half mile and was pushing about as hard as I could. I never looked at the garmin to see how fast we were going but when I go home I looked and it said that at one point I was going 3:56 pace. No wonder it felt hard. I'm guessing that we held that pace for around 700m or so. Then the rest of the run was just at easy pace.



(Blue Stratus 202.25)

12.3 mile run this morning. I've been running this run over 1:30 something all week and today despite being drained at the end of a week I ran it in 1:28:54. Not anything amazing but I wasn't trying to push the pace so it's nice to see that I'm really not as sluggish as I feel. Now I've got a big day of house chores and getting the dogs groomed... But I love my life as a stay at home dad.

(Blue Cumulus 206.5)

5.7 mile run this afternoon. I had a long day of laundry, dishes, shopping, and getting the doggies groomed.  

20.4 mile run this morning with the club. They all were actually doing 15 miles so they took me up an extra 5 up past Veyo. This run was scary similar to a run I did on Aug 4, 2007. It was within seconds on both parts of the run. I had originally planned (today) to try and do the second ten miles at around 5:20 pace... this to try and equal a workout that I had done on September 8, 2007... pretty aggressive considering that was one of my top 5 best running performances ever!

Today it just wasn't happening. I had to work a little too hard on the first half to hit the 6:38 pace I ended up with- then on the second half there wasn't a lot of kick. Plus there was a mild headwind that cost me about 10 seconds a mile, and I'm at the end of a really high mileage week (for me). To top all of that off I'm trying to teach my legs how to run fast again. I have to remind myself that it is only March 8 and we are very early in the year to have much speed at all.

Goal for the spring/summer is to run that second 10 miles at 5:10 pace or faster!

Total- 2:03:54 for 20 miles.

PART 1: 6:38 min mile pace for the first 10 miles. 1:06:44

PART 2: 5:42 min mile pace for the last 10 miles. 57:10

Here are the splits for the last 10 miles although they really aren't that impressive:

1. 5:58- taking a GU and running with a drink

2. 5:25- Nice relaxed mile

3. 5:36- Met the headwind for the first time and battle it on in!

4. 5:47- Wind

5. 5:56- This is a pathetic mile it should have been 20 seconds faster on that grade... Bad wind though.

6. 6:00- Battling up the hill by Winchester and the wind

7. 5:38- Really try to get some turnover and save the workout!

8. 5:27- A little better but still should have been faster.

9. 5:38- Blah!

10. 5:40- Should be close to a 5 min mile on this section. I do have to stop completely at the light and stop the watch (sucks because now I'm not really going to get going again).

So the good news of the workout is that I didn't bail off and pull out of tempo gear. Although it was very tempting at some points. I'm happy that inside of a 120+ mile week I could hit the same caliber of workout that I was hitting last year in August.

Around .4 miles of cool down. It should have been more but I was trying to get home to go the the track meet with my wife.

(Red Stratus 152.7)