Clyde's Comeback!

6.5 miles this morning

7 miles this evening before the game

Both runs were just so so. I'm not sore at all from the race this last weekend however I am very wore out. I think I may have gotten a little sick from my allergies that have been just out of control. Because my body is so tired it can't fight off the sickness. I hope to get a solid week of training in and start feeling healthy again before next week.

7 miles this morning

11 miles this afternoon

Easy paced runs trying to get back in the swing of things after a long weekend. I've got this bad side ache. Not only when I run but just walking around the house. I kind of felt it on my second and third legs of the Del Sol and then Monday on both runs then today. It's a pretty bad pain if it continues for two more day I'll have to go see a Doc.

Saw TWO desert turtles this afternoon. One about a mile north of my house and one about one mile north of that. The first one scared me just as bad as I scared it. Then I saw the second from a far and came up on it from behind- it was just going to town eating on a bush. Then it saw me and hissed and went in it's shell. It's kind of cool seeing them. In a little over a year since we moved to this house I've seen 4 or 5 live turtles out in th reserve- and way too many snakes but we won't go there.

Wanted to get a nice base building workout in. Only thought about doing around 16 but one road lead to anouther and by the time I got home it was 20.15 on the garmin. Chest pain pretty bad for first 5.5 or so then it didn't really bother me on the run- returned later in the day. Just ran smooth and easy trying to see what kind of shape I was in. Felt good and never ran out of gas. I wasn't pacing myself at all but ended up just in front of the 7:00 guy- my pace time was 6:59 min/miles for the 20 miles. Legs feel good, I just hope to get over whatever it is that's wronge with my chest. May see a Dr. today.

6 miles this morning

6 miles this evening with the club

An easy day. Chest and sides hurt on morning run for first 2 miles then pain went away. Kind of sore all day but didn’t bother me on evening run. Tried to get into a Dr. but there was no appointments available. So we did some research on WEB MD and decided I may have bronchitis. Symptoms started showing up last Thursday. It would explain why my nose ran so bad during the Del Sol. It was a little worse than just allergies. I also had this dry cough, and also the pain under rib cage. I can kind of tell its working its way out of my body. Hopefully through this weekend I can show signs of improvement and we’ll look forward to Boston. If no improvement is made by Monday running the race may not be an option. I can do my day to day training runs at a slow pace but as I increase speed below 6:30 pace it almost brings me to my knees. I don’t know how I finished the last leg of the Del Sol- the other legs hurt but this one left a very vivid impression. About 2.5 miles into the run I got that sharp pain in the side-I just fought it off as a bad side ache…now I know it was a little more than that.

Maybe in the end after training with this for about a week it will make me stronger. Because my lungs have felt like they have had a rubber band around them. Anyways enough rambling about it- I’m just happy to see some signs of the healthy Clyde.

6.5 in the morning

7 in the evening

First day chest pain hasn't been an issue. Whatever it was that was down in my chest is now breaking up and I'm coughing up all kinds of junk. Hopefully back on track.

Morning run was easy. Eveing run I pushed 5:30 pace for about 2.5 miles and did the rest around 6:30 pace.

My wifes grandma has been asking us for months to help her have a yard sale... So today was the day. We got to her house at 6 a.m. and started getting stuff out and ready. Almost as soon as we did people started to show up. So after things were rolling at the yard sale I left on the run. Felt really flat for all 13.3 miles. Never found that smooth stride that makes things easy- instead I just felt like I was breaking a trail in deep snow without snow shoes on. I should have just done like 8 but I thought I was this close to 90 for the week I might as well finish.

After the run cleaned up the mess at the yard sale and came home to crash. Felt like I had raced the Striders half today (by the way good job to all). Fell asleep until the Masters started and watched all of it. I felt bad for those guys and hope the weather on the east coast warms up before Boston. We'll see if Tiger can pull it off tomorrow?