Clyde's Comeback!

Kind of all over this morning. Fields around Stone Cliff. Down to the inner river trail then through B-hills and around the park to finish. I hate running around the fields during the week. Too much traffic and little to no shoulder to run on. Plus most the cars are soccer mom's with their ear glued to a phone while speeding. It'll take an accident for something to change out there but I'm guessing it will come down to that sooner or later. As for running it was just another Monday. A little coldish with temps down to 36 F and I worried all night about it getting frosty and hitting the garden and flowers. But temps stayed up... lucky me. 

6 miles tonight. Inner B-hills loop after Mik'L got home from work. Just smooth and EZ. Decent run before grabbing some food and watching the game. Although I picked Kentucky to win I was rooting for KU and they just couldn't get anything going. 14 missed lay ups and 2 missed dunks says a lot. 

B-hills loop and finished with the secret street. If years ago I hadn't have made a commitment to be consistent; today would have been one of those day's I'd have just stayed home. Felt unmotivated and not into running this morning. But pushed it out the door. Out running things didn't get easier. Kind run that just drags on and on. But we got through it- hope this afternoon feels better. 

5.6 miles tonight around the inner B-hills loop. Felt much better than this morning. Still kind of achy but much better. No watch but I'm guessing pace was around a 6:40 avg as I moved right along so we could hit up Costco as a family and grab dinner. 

Guys run here at 5:30 a.m. DC loop nice and EZ. I wore my gps for the first time in a few weeks on this run and I actually felt like the pace was a little faster but... it really wasn't. After we finished with the guys I did 4 more and and back. Kind of done by the end but felt better than yesterday morning for sure. 7:07 avg for the entire run. 

B-hills loop and extended around the secret street. Just tried to take it EZ. I feel so tired this week. I need to schedule a 24 hour nap... with nothing else. 

10 miles tonight with the club. Really windy from the southwest. Some sections it just stopped you in your tracks. I hate running in the wind more than anything. 6:35 avg.

DC loop and extended back through the secret street. 6:54 avg. As I suspected after last nights run in the wind I was pretty trashed this morning. And the allergies are super bad causing bad drainage, blockage, and crazy itchy eyes. When it's this bad the whole body just feels weak. So the run was a labor of love this morning. Glad it's done and I can chill the rest of the day while watching The Masters. 

Big workout

Ran the same workout I did one month ago before Modesto. 5 mile warm up then 13 mile tempo and a 2 mile cool down back home. The warm up miles were around the park and over to the trail system through B-hills. Then started the tempo on the club 10 mile river loop going clockwise. The tempo starts where the trail comes into B-hills above the river by the cliff.  After hitting one lap I just overlapped back around the inner DC loop and back up to River Road. I didn't go into the workout with big plans of "hammering" anything. But I did want to hit things semi hard just to help the run get over with. I ended up running really strong and hit a PR on the course of a 6:19 avg for the entire 20 miles- one month ago I hit a 6:23 avg.

For some reason the first miles are slow on both runs. First miles heads towards the freeway then over by Pilot truck stop. The next mile should be fast as it's downhill into Bloomington. But it must just take me a long time to get going. 

On the 13 mile tempo section I ran it 1:20 faster today than last time. Here are my splits today. 

6:31, 6:15, 6:03, 5:57, 6:00, 5:45, 5:31, 5:42, 5:31, 5:58, 5:37, 5:39, 5:55

Solid run and I guess dare I say improvement over the last time. Never felt amazing but the times were solid across the board. It was cool this morning at 35 F and actually dropped some frost that did damage on my tomato plants and some flowers. Bummer. 

I like this 20 miler A LOT. For some reason the way it's laid out it just makes your brain feel like your not running 20 miles- and it helps that most of the run was before the sun came up.

Glad to get it in. Came home and went right to work on mowing and edging the lawn. Then took Myler to the city park for a Easter egg hunt- then over to the Arts festival and bought some art. Now I'm trashed and will watch golf- sucks that Tiger blew it yesterday.