Clyde's Comeback!

Ran from my house up over skyline drive then down to main and on to the Dixie Center. From there I hit the trail over to Bloomington Hills and then made my way to my mother-in-laws house. Then from there around the hill past Stone Cliff over by Steve's new house and up by the corn maze. I stayed on that road over the river and up into Washington. Then up by golf course and back to home. I ran right in the hottest part of the day around 80 or so. My shoulders and neck got a pretty good burn in the 2:15:25 it took me to run the 20 miles. I never tried to push it at all- but on the fiip side I never could get into a good stride. I ran in some new shoes New Balance.... I think the shoes will be ok but only from runs under 9 miles or so. If I would have had a different pair of shoes I think this run would have gone alot better. Also had to stop 3 times (dixie center, in-laws, port-a-potty in a construction site) for a bio break. I really need to prep my stomach better on a long run like that. Yada yada yada....

I just could not get up this morning so I had to pay the price and run it all at once this afternoon after working all day. By the end of the run I was feeling pretty trashed and dehydrated. I'll try and take a couple days of easy stuff to recover from the last two days.

6.5 miles in the morning

7 miles this evening

Both runs were easy recovery runs. No pick-ups, strides, or surges not even on the downhills. Just kind of in a funk right now and want to make sure that no injuries come out of it.

6.5 miles this morning

9.5 miles this afternoon with the club

Morning run was again nice and easy. No watch or gps just easy stuff. This afternoon meet up with the club and did the Santa Clara/ Jacob Hammlin loop. First 5 miles were a smooth pace with Dave. Then we started some downhill and running seemed effortless just felt like I was floating. Looked at Garmin and was between 5:40-5:50 pace. So I wanted to ride this wave as long as I could and decided not to slow down. I tried to hold that effort all the way back to the running store. I did ok until the last half mile that winds through some houses and is uphill- then I slowed way down.

Good workout. Glad to be feeling better after the fist part of the week I felt so poor. Just a few easy runs in a row really work well to help me recover, or at least they did this time.

5 miles on the treadmill this moring

8 mile loop this afternoon up to powerline and down into the golf course and back home

Just out running.

14.6 with Bill