Clyde's Comeback!

7.2 mile run this morning. Went over into Washington and down around the new road that loops back up past Costco and home. I finally talked myself into getting back out. The hammy is still sore but runnable- so I ran. I'll try to get out once a day but not jump into "doubles" until I get a handle on things. 

Other than the hammy being a little sore I felt like a 300 lb man. My shape is slowly slipping to the way side. I guess if I have to start all the way over when this is all said and done then I will. Anyways it was nice out today,  until someone built a massive fire out in Washington fields and the whole town got really smoky. Now I have a head ache! 

30 min bike ride from the parking lot in Green Valley up to were I started the run. Then after the run I rode back to the Jeep but it only took 16 min's to get back because of the downhill. No jumps today. Last time I rode this trail I blew a tire by slamming into the rock doing jumps. Today I felt pretty uncoordinated and thought jumping the bike would led to some kind of drama.  

4.7 mile run around the Green Valley side of the hill and through the "gap" then around  and up Bear Paw and poppy then looped back to the bike. I didn't know where I was going or how far it would be when I started this run. Because some of the run was on pretty rough terrain it still took 42 min's to do the loop. I could never do that same loop again because I was winding around so much I'd never remember which trail I took. 

 It was nice today. 80 degrees here at the house at around 2:30 p.m. I took my shirt off for the bike ride and run and now my upper body is bright pink... I got fried. The first sun burn of the season and it's March 3. Actually last week I got pretty fried on my arms during some bike rides but this was shirtless.  

An out and back run today up over the trail and down into GS to the new park (restroom) and then back home up the trail. My hamstring was only a little sore and for the most part the run was perfect. But coming down the trail into GS my tummy started to go nuts and I barley made it to the potty... Man I'm not sure what I had in the system but it wasn't happy. Perfect spring day other than the breeze... but I guess that the difference between fall and spring. Fall is just perfect weather and spring is great when the wind isn't blowing.  

Stomach flu... what gives!

I'm kind of a gluten for punishment. Today I went back up on the mesa and had the time of my life. Well maybe not. I took the bike and had Mik'L haul me up to the watertank in the truck then biked from there up the road to where the trail head. Then up the switch backs to the top. This took about one hour and twenty min's from the time Mik'L dropped me off. As I was working across the top I felt like thins were strange and right before I really started to drop off on the downhill I blew a tire. Ef! No problem I'll just pull it off and repair it with my trusty trail patch kit- NOT. I bought this crap-o-la junk thing a Wal-Mart and it jacked me up. So the glueless patch kits don't work! Now I'm 9 miles from anywhere and stuck up on the Broken Mesa with a bike I don't want to leave up there but it would be A LOT easier if I could just run home. So I push the bike down off the sucker running where at all possible. I start to go cross country off the trail to try and save time but every time I do it costs me even more. I finally made it back to the watertank and met up with Mik'L who I had called. Total time out- over 4 hours. But hey I found one fresh deer antler. The crazy thing is that I kind of want to go back tomorrow morning....

Just over 15 miles up on the mesa again. I love going up there. It was a perfect day and I packed my backpack up with goodies and went up for about 4 hours looking for treasures. I found the other side to the deer antler that I found the day before and also something else even better but I can't say on here. After going back and forth up there on the bike. Yes I was just making my own trail. I finally got down to the "last" tree where we stashed water and stuff on the group run. It was here yesterday that I made friends with a coyote. I saw him from around 200 yards away and then he started to run... so I whistled and he stopped and laid down. So I kept walking (pushing the bike) to him and kept whistling and got within 25 yards. He was big. Long legs. At first he looked like some kind of weird kangaroo thing. Anyways I thought I'd go back and see if he was there again but he'd moved to better hunting grounds without me coming around. 

When I got down closer to where you drop off the "cut" I decided to go down the trail (it's really not a trail) that drops onto Mustang Pass. I rode down that and managed to not kill myself then did the little trail loop over to the road and then finally back home.

I'm actually getting some pretty good workouts out riding the mountain bike. These 3-4 hour trips are fun but are keeping me pretty fit. I realized today that my left leg/ hammy (the one that has been hurt) has about 25% less power peddling than my right leg. This has to carry over to running too. No wonder when I run that everything else starts to hurt- hips, back, right leg, ankles... I'm a mess.