Clyde's Comeback!

The the mini overpass loop. I thought maybe I'd feel sore from Saturdays run but I didn't. The legs were really heavy until about mile 4 then I was able to start running more fluid. It was a great morning to be out running with just a slight breeze and solid blue skies. I also found a good wrench off the side of the road. I don't use tools very often but this could come in handy somewhere down the line. It would run ya a good 15$ at Lowes. 

Kind of a fun but very crazy run this morning. I went up the Broken Mesa trail to the road then up the road to where it cuts over to the Icehouse trail and back down it to make the loop in 3:57. I started at 5 a.m sharp and had the head lamp on.... those things are way over rated. It took 1:05 to do the first 6 miles in the dark- lots of uphill and plenty of rocks. At this point I ws sick of messing with the head lamp and it was kind of twilighty enough to see so I left it at the junction in the trails where I picked it up later. This is a trail at best, not a dirt road or a 4-wheeler path. You can go down just about anywhere but somehow today I didn't. Lots of climbing basically 14 miles of it up to where I turned back on the Icehouse trail. In this area I got a little off target and had to go cross country for a couple miles until I ran into the road again. I turned off the road too soon and ended up in some private property. But I knew the general direction of where the Icehouse starts so I just made my own trial over and found it. 

It's been about 2 months since I was last up on the mesa and it's sure looks different now. Lots of grass and pretty flowers. Green all over. In fact when I was coming down the Icehouse trail I kept struggling to stay on it becasue of all then new vegitation- plus it's really old and hardly never used. 

 I took my hydration pack by Nathen sports and it works pretty good. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do for water during Squaw... Glad to get a good run in this morning. I love watching the sun come up out on a run in the desert.

7 miles this morning pushing Myler on the river trail. I had planed to go from the top to the bottom for a total of 9. But on the way down I decided that I'd turn around at 3.5 just to make sure it wasn't too much for me and the little guy. He ended up sleeping the entire way. 

The running went ok. I was a little shaky at first but the second half felt pretty good. The hammy was kind of sore but not hurting. When we got back to the truck I decided that the distance was just perfect for what we needed today.

A nice little family workout this morning. I loaded up the jogging stroller and Mik'L's bike and we went down and did the river trail. I pushed Myler and Mik'L road along side. It was really nice out- no wind and perfect temps. Myler did the usual and slept almost the whole trip. 

I felt really good and dispite pushing the jogger we still cruised along at around 7:20 pace. I felt some small hammy pain when I'd start going a little faster- but then I'd just slow down and felt really good again. Anyways a good little outing... maybe next time we can bring the dogs!

As I just finished off the month of April with 252 mils for the month.... last year in April I had 440... it seems like a different world.

Did the Utah Hill loop again- twice. It is 13.8 miles and I extended on the last one down the road to keep round numbers. I started at 6 p.m and it was still pretty warm 85ish. Did the first lap in 1:52 and my wife met me at the Jeep before I stared the second loop. On the second loop the garmin battery lost it's life so I don't have any time or splits. But I have to think it was as fast or faster than the first loop because on the downhill sections I let the legs go and was running pretty hard. The bad news is I'll be sore after this one where as I wasn't last time I did this workout. The action happened about 5 miles into the second lap when I came real close to getting slammed by a real rattle snake. I actually didn't see him until I was one step past but then I heard the rattle buzzing and I turned around and screamed. It did one of those movie things and lifted it's head off the ground about a foot and a half. Oh man the rest of the run my eyes were wide open scanning the trail for any of his buddies. I did have to do the last 7 or so in the dark with the head lamp. 

The hammy felt good until about 3 miles left and I tripped. I didn't go down to the road but "sufed" it out. However during the action I pulled the hammy pretty good and it was achy on the way back. Hopefully it won't be a major issue again....

Did a run from my house over to the in-laws this evening. Had a busy day with family stuff and had a really bad day with eating. Junk, junk and more junk. Heading out I was worried about how my legs would feel after last nights long run. But as I got into it the legs felt pretty good but the tummy hurt the entire run. I just wanted to barf. The hammy flet ok considering... it was a little sore and just tired. The rest of the legs were fine other that some soreness in the bones... hard to explain but it just felt like the bones hurt. I still ran pretty hard over here hitting 7:22 pace for the run.