Clyde's Comeback!

12.3 mile run this morning. Regular old overpass loop. I woke up drained with a belly full of junk food from the weekend of traveling. However I pushed myself out the door and once the run was under way I felt pretty good. Not really any soreness from the race on Saturday. Glad to get the week going and I'll try to hang on for some good mileage this week. 7:15 min mile avg.

(Landreth 81.7 )

8 mile run this evening. Worked  hard all day out in the dusty, blowing dirt. I came home pretty drained and just about packed it in for the day. But I managed out the door and just told myself to keep it very easy and just get it done. About a half mile into the run I started to feel great, almost too good. I didn't have any kind of watch or gps on so I'm not sure what was going on... but I made my way up to the watertank and then down around the industrial loop. I felt amazing and kept trying to hold myself back, but just felt like I was floating. My form was the best it's been all year and everything else was clicking like a clock. I ended up racing a guy on a bike the last 1.3 and it was basically a photo finish.

So most likely I'll pay the price the rest of the week for running a mini tempo type run on Monday afternoon but for today it felt good.

(Blue Cumulus 260.4) 

12.3 miles this morning on the standard loop. Not as glamorous as last night but not too bad either. The pizza, chip, salsa, and guacamole that I ate last night watching the NCAA championship game didn't sit as good as I though it would. Oh well you win some you lose some.

(White Cumulus 202)

8 miles this evening. I tried some different legs of the GS loop but it still ended up being 8 miles. In fact from my driveway back to my driveway it was 8.0- I was thinking it would have been a little longer. Only 3 miles of it was on paved roads the rest was out on the sandy trails.

(Red Stratus 255) 

17 mile run this morning. I ran the same loop up around Coral Canyon that I did with Dave and Logan a couple months ago plus I added a little around Middleton at the end. I did the 17 miles at an avg of 6:52 min/mile pace. Which is pretty good on that course. There are some really steep uphill parts and the downhill isn't fast enough to make up for it. I felt like I ran very well this morning and was starting to feel the "flow".

(Landreth 98.7)

4 miles this afternoon. Just something easy to go to bed on. Legs felt kind of tired and sore this afternoon.

Here are a few pictures from the race last Saturday.

10.1 mile run this morning with Steven. We met up at his house early and ran down to the Dixie Center and back. It was a little chilly but still a very nice morning. After the run I had to look at his sprinkler system that has been leaking all winter. What a muddy mess! Anyways it shouldn't be too hard of a fix and I'm glad about that. Club run this evening if your in town stop on by at 6 p.m. at the store.

(Blue Stratus 280.4)

10.3 mile run this evening with the club. We started out with Bill, Dave F. and his brother. Then Bill and I pressed ahead and Bill turned at the seven mile turn. I went down past SC high to the park where I usually have to go potty... and had to again so I'll now call it "potty park" and then I just turned around and ran back to the store that same way.  Finished at an avg of 6:56 pace for the run after going nice and easy for the first few. Really starting to feel the "MOJO" coming back from last fall. The last 3 miles or so today was below 6:30 pace and it felt effortless. I've had some really good runs this week and am feeling stronger than ever. Hope to continue to make some good progress without any setbacks.

(White Cumulus 212.3)

12.6 miles this morning. Over into GS the long way then up the sand trail to the powerline. Then to the water tank and down around industrial to home the longer way. Nothing too fancy this morning. More or less kind of just blah. Now I've got to get some things done for the family and get ready to watch the Masters this afternoon while I take a good nap or as they call it in England a little "kip".

(Landreth 111.3)

5.7 mile run this evening. Not a lot of motivation this afternoon. Just the bear necessities tonight.

(Blue Cumulus 266.1)

Well the last time I ran this race I ran a 37:50 back in 2006. So this morning my main goal was to hit a PR even doing it as a tempo training run. We met up early at the start (Bill, Dave, Steve and I) to run the course as a warm-up. We ended up doing just a little more and barley having enough time to get to the starting line... but no worries. I'll be the first to say that this is a tough course, but we had an amazing morning so the conditions were as good as they could be.

1. 5:16- Up around the school and houses. It actually didn't feel like we went out this fast.

2. 5:07- Still circling the streets and then dropping off down to the main road. I must have been in the zone because I had no intentions of running any miles this fast.

3. 5:30- Ah that's more like it on some rolling hills. At this point Dave is about 1 min back and everyone else is off the radar.

4. 5:45- We round the corner on this mile and start the long climb. I also start having some mild dry heaving action... but I fight it off like a champ today as to not have a "puking" story to tell.

5. 6:14- This looks slow but up that hill it really wasn't too bad. I'm just running easy now trying not to push too hard. But even if I'd wanted to run this at all out race mode today this mile wouldn't have been much faster.

6. 5:49- Still climbing on this mile but we do reach the top. Once there I relax a little and try to enjoy this section of flat with a short little downhill at the end of the race.

.2 44 seconds- The 5k was finishing at the same time so I dodge my way through mom's and kids finishing up with that.

Overall a great morning to be out running. After the race we ran the course for a third time to cool-down and Dave and I extended a little more to get to 20 miles for the day. My goal going into the workout today was to hit the tempo paced miles at 5:40 pace... I avg 5:36 so not too bad for that course. This was a great overall workout to have in the bank and finishes off whats been a really good week of training. I feel I'm heading in the right direction.

(Speedstars 86.5)

(White Cumulus 226.1)