Clyde's Comeback!

I decided I'd start doing some (2) a day workouts to help boost my mile per week. So I've picked a quick loop through the industrial park that I can run every morning. With a afternoon run this will help me pick it up.

Ran after work out 3.5 and back. I feel a little sore but almost better than I would guess I should considering one week ago I was in a wheelchair after Boston.

I did 3.5 in the morning.

Then after work I meet with the club and we ran over Formaster and backwards around our little bottom end loop. The loop is 8.7 so I did a little lap at the park after and it made it and even 9 on GE.

I'm feeling good. With the extra miles that I plan on running I just hope to stay free from injury. I try and run easy and uniform on my runs to prevent anything from happening.

If I can stay healthy and I can handle doing this many miles for the next few months I think I can really improve. For now I have decided to just take it one day, or one run at a time because it gets stressful looking at the big picture...all those miles, all those runs, speed work, new shoes, yada, yada yada

Morning Loop

After work I was goig to do my "big loop" but I remembered that I had my high school wrestling banquet tonigt at 6p.m. So I left work at 4 and went to the high school and changed. I ran from there over Formaster, then up around the mall, down through the Red Cliffs shopping center, over the freeway, down the Blv, and down 400 E back to the high school. It was right on 7 miles. It was a pretty good run and it left me with plenty of time to get things organized for the wrestlers.

I couldn't get up today so I had to do it all after work. Bad choice.

I worked late so by the time I went out it was 5:40p.m. which for me is late to begin a long run. It was really windy and if I could have gotten out of it-I would have.

I did my desert big loop run and the thing I've been living in fear of ever since the first day I ran out there happened today. I saw a snake. Holly crap I almost stepped on the stupid thing. I'm almost sure it was a rattler. I hate snakes with every fiber of my soul. I told my wife that I love running out on those trail, but the first time I saw a snake would be the last time I ran out there. So I've got to find some new running loops, or get a lot braver due to the situation.

The worst part about it is that the last two weeks the vegetation has grown up so high that its hard to see the trail and I'll be almost on top of one of the stupid things before ever seeing it. Bad, Bad news for me.

After that my heart rate went through the roof for the next 5 miles and I hardly would run because I was trying to slow down and watch for more. Then once I got out of enemy territory I was able to stride it out again.

Did my morning run.

I planned on doing a good afternoon workout but ended up going up to Cedar City and not getting home until late.

Ran with the club. Did a loop out in Ivans and Santa Clara. Pretty good run. Again I had planned to do another run this afternoon but did not have a free second until after 10p.m. and by then I was dead. My goal for the week was 64 and I feel just short. Two days in a row my days ran away from me, not allowing a afternoon run. The lesson here is that I am thankful I did the morning runs to at least get some miles in.