Clyde's Comeback!

10.6 miles this morning out in the rain. Ran over to Bloomington then up the trail to River Road and back home. Felt really good for a Monday. 6:45 avg for the run. 

Inner B-hills loop this evening in the dark. It was windy and I don't like the wind. 

Regular B-hills loop. The legs didn't feel as zippy this morning as they did yesterday. I ran later last night and then didn't eat much of a dinner... then got up early and ran again. Hence I felt pretty flat and was happy to finish the run and be done. Then I could move into some yard project involving a shovel and a wheelbarrow. Now my hands are blistered- but it's done!

8.8 mile run this afternoon from the in-laws. I left Myler there to play with G-ma. Looped out around Stone Cliff and the fields then into little valley and back down River Road. Pretty good run and I kept it uptempo hitting a 6:50 avg. 

Regular B-hills loop this morning. It's Mylers 2 year old Birthday. We love that little boy so much. I feel so blessed to have him as part of our family. 

Another lap this evening. Just trying to push out mileage this week. Went to Pirate Island Pizza tonight for Myler's little party. He liked the pizza said they use good cheese. 

Middle B-hills loop this morning. The weather is great and the forecast looks grand. 70's for seven days!

10.5 mile run tonight with the club. Big group and very nice weather. I ended up having the worst stomach issues in my running history and had to do a couple road side stops. It was horrible. Hit some fast miles coming back up including a 5:13 8th mile trying to catch back up to Aaron and Nick.

B-hills/ River road loop. Kind of trashed and feeling the stomach crap from last night. But worked it out. Saw a bunch of guys running and they all looked pretty fast... maybe a college team. 

P.M. Messed around in Little Valley until it was time to come home. Didn't want to go on this run at all. I forced it for the mileage... kind of dumb I know. Spent the entire day building a playhouse for Myler. We bought it at Costco (massive thing with yellow slide). Anyways got a little more than half way done. What a job!

Big workout this morning. Had a big group meet at my house and we did the old freeway loop. Did the first loop in 1:11 just chit chatting and hanging. Tried to relax and not work too hard and save it for the second lap. 

Then we did a second loop after grabbing some GU and switching shoes. The plan was to do a harder tempo push on the second lap. We didn't go out too hard and hit the first mile in 5:59. Basically everyone stayed together until about mile 3. Then Nick and Aaron moved up, then Logan and Dave and I brought up the rear. By mile 6 I was still only 40 seconds behind Nick and Aaron and wanted to finish strong... But they kept hitting pretty good splits and I wasn't doing the greatest. I passed Logan around mile 8 (he got a blister). Ended up hitting a 5:47 avg and running the 10 mile loop in 57:46.  This was a PR for this course. I've ran it 4 times this way since December and my previous best was a 58:33 or a 5:51 avg. 

I was pretty happy because it felt like most of February I was sick and didn't get a lot of good training in. So it was nice to still see some progress.

Spent the rest of the day working on Mylers playhouse... it's still not done but we're getting close.