Clyde's Comeback!

So I'm a little tight this morning after the race yesterday. Not like "I need a message" sore but sore like "I need to relax". My mind is racing about where I need to take my training. I've got two good weeks of hard training before the week of the Striders Half and I've got a lot to do before then. I'd like to keep the miles up over 100 but also really try to hammer some tempo runs and work on that threshold speed.

My last 6 weeks of training I've avg 110 miles a week and I feel that I've got a good solid base. Now instead of trying to just pile on the miles I'll do two or three speed workouts each week. So like I said I still want to be at 100 mpw or just over but I won't be aiming for 120's or something.

My lack of threshold work has in a sense crippled me at both Del Sol and yesterday at the Spectrum. I hate the feeling of not being able to push any harder. On races where I have really felt good about my performance I've always just ran smooth and never tried to force things. But the last two races I've been forcing the turnover and in a way felt "flappy" or sloppy so to speak.

Anyways I'm just venting about what needs to happen. It's just hard for me to push out those harder tempo workouts. But the time has come.

12.3 mile morning loop. Man the legs were heavy and slow this morning. I can't get over how sore my hind end is. I'm not sure it's ever been sore after a race...Today with both runs I'll just be kind of do easy recovery runs and hope to prepare for some tempo stuff tomorrow morning.

(Landreth 28.9)

7.8 mile run this evening. Over into GS and then up the sand trail to the Powerline and back down into Middleton. Not as smooth feeling as I'd have liked it to be, but I can see some improvement from this morning.

(White Cumulus 151.5) 

12 mile morning run. Kind of a mini tempo on very tiered legs. I ran from the house over to the industrial park and up the hill past the water tank to where the pavement ends. This put me out 5.1 miles. For the last mile and a half of that I tried to run a harder than easy but not full blown tempo. Then a bathroom break and back down to begin the all out temop.
4.1 miles at tempo pace avg 5:20 for that phase. The only reason I was able to hit these times was that it's downhill... but at this point leg turnover is leg turnover. Then I finished up running back down to the gas station and back home for the cool down.

(Red Stratus 185.1) 

Over all not a bad workout. Kind of a cheap way to get some fast miles but it's close to the house and I'm pretty sore still from last week. Plus running up there to start with is a good workout in it's self. Hey it's a good way to start, now I just need one more tempo this week. Most likely I'll just try to finish my long run on Saturday at race pace or maybe Thursday night- we'll have to see.

5.2 mile run this afternoon. Up to the powerline and back on the trail. Just an easy (get it done) type of run. The weather is perfect right now int the afternoon.

(Blue Cumulus 220.9)

16.6 mile morning run. The same start of my normal Washington overpass loop but when I got back to GS I took the sandy trail up to the powerline and then up to the water tank and back around through the industrial park. Nothing really to write home about other than it's in the books. I guess I negative split this run today even with all the big hill climbs on the second half.

(Blue Stratus 231.15)

4.2 mile run this evening. Mik'L and I went on a little drive "just to look" at the houses in GS. We love that area ALOT but everything was either not what we were looking for or WAY too much $$$. Like I said we were just looking. We are toying with the idea of buying a bigger home but it's not like it will happen right now. I'm sad though because even if we were... we sure aren't going to be doing it up there. So after we were done I had her drop me off at the head of the sand trail and I ran it up to the powerline and back home.  

10.1 mile run this morning. Same loop as usual but I didn't go up into GS. Busy day ahead, plus I have the club run tonight.

(Landreth 39)

10.1 mile run with the club. Very hard run for me this afternoon. We were only doing around 7 min pace on the first 4.5 or so and it was very difficult for me to keep the pace. The legs felt way tired, and heavy. I should have just stopped and hitch hiked back to the store but when the guys split and went back I just ran a lone and slowed down to around 7:15-20 pace and things felt a lot better. I'm not sure what my deal was but is sucked.

(Red Stratus 195.2) 

Allergies, and being totally wiped out kept me home this morning. I actually got up at 6 and got dressed to run but just felt horrible so I got back in bed. Hopefully after what is set up to be a long day at work I'll be able to get a few miles in tonight.

13.1 mile run this afternoon. We worked until around 1:30 then I did a loop out in Ivins and Santa Clara. It felt hard to push out 7:20 pace for the first like 8 miles and I was getting really upset that maybe something was generally wrong. Then after my garmin beeped at 8 I started to hit 6:30 pace and it felt easy.... I don't know what's going on. Don't tell me I now need a 8 mile warm-up to get going.

(Red Stratus 208.3)

22.8 mile run this morning. Met up with the club down at the Dixie Center and started out to try an idea I had about a tempo loop. So we ran the loop once as a warm-up and it turned out to be 5.7 miles. A lot of it is on the Painters course and the some up on the other trail.

After the warm-up lap that was at 7:14 pace we started the marathon paced tempo. Some of the trail is under construction so we only did 5.4 miles at temp pace so we didn't get hurt trying to run fast through the construction mess.

The 5.4 mile tempo was at 5:31avg pace. Pretty good considering I only wanted to hit 5:40 pace. Hayden stuck it in high gear and I just tried to hang on to him. He ended up pulling away from me at the end and was running very strong.

Then another lap (5.7 miles) with the guys to cool down at around 7 min pace. Then the guys were done and I added one more lap at 6:40 pace to finish up the week.

Had a good time this morning. It's just amazing spring weather and the mornings are the best. I liked the little tempo loop and think I'll keep it as a standard the rest of the summer. Like every two weeks or something.

(Blue Stratus 253.95)