Clyde's Comeback!

Legs felt like it was a Monday. No not a fantastic Monday a regular Monday. Heavy, slow and kind of clumsy. The left hammy really got tight at the end of last week and despite Mik'L rolling it out twice over the weekend (and not running on Saturday) it's still pretty tight. 

 9.3 miles tonight. If the legs felt slow this morning then they felt fast tonight. I kept finding myself rolling a long at around 6:15 pace and had to continually slow down. Ended with a 6:54 avg. 

River Road/ B-hills loop. It was such a beautiful morning. Glad I could be out running. Nothing too impressive to mention other than how grand the morning was. 

9 miles this evening. My plan was to do a mini workout of 800's. But I didn't want to go to the track so I started running around my hood and tried to come up with a location to do it. Once I got over by the Little Valley Elem School I saw their outside walking path/ track thing. It's like of a big, squareish, paved path that surrounds the grass field. So I warmed up some more and measured it off. It would take a lap and a half to hit .50 of a mile. My warm up concluded at 3 miles.

1. 2:29 @ .52 - I never got an exact place to end so every time I ended a little over. During the warm up this seemed like a good place to do this workout. But the first time I came into one of the 90 degree turns at tempo I realized it wasn't.

2. 2:28 .51- Legs really don't know how to run fast workouts and are really questioning what's up.

3. 2:28 .50- I'm thinking that maybe I'm not as recovered as I thought from SLC. Just feel flat.

4. 2:28 .50- This felt slow and I was happy with the time by the end.

After each set I'd jog .25 back around to the start and it took about 2 min's.

3 mile jog back round Little Valley once I got done. Legs were heavy and slow.

Did this run in my old retired Ohanas.

Normal B-hills run. Legs were really really heavy this morning. After a small taste of a track style workout last night they were in protest of running this morning. So it was a slow one. 

Pushed Myler around the middle B-hills loop this afternoon. It was pretty warm so I wore a hat to keep the sun off my head. The breeze picked up about half way around and it kept me from over heating. 

B-hills/ River Road loop. I was completely trashed this morning. Hammys were tight and legs were tired. It seemed to go on forever. 

Club run tonight. I got there and did a couple or so while waiting. Bill and Aaron finally showed and we did the regular 10 mile loop. It was hot I was not- pace was slow. Ended up feeling pretty good by the end... even the tight sore hammies did ok.  

Around Stone Cliff and into B-hills. Right knee was really sore all night but felt alright on the run. 7:05 avg

Long run this morning. I just did two loops from my house that were 10.6 and 10.5 miles each. Looped out around the schools in Little Valley then over the DC back up the trail and hit River Road home. On the first lap I dropped over to the restroom on the golf course and didn't on the second loop. Hit 1:14 on the first lap then a 2:22 total time. So a little faster on the second. Never went into tempo gear and just felt smooth and EZ all morning. It was a beautiful on too. Hit an overall avg of 6:45 for the run. Came home after the first lap and switched shoes and got a drink with some GU. Mik'L was all hooked up with the bike trailer and was going to ride with me on the second one pulling Myler. But just over 2 miles into it she was struggling to keep up and I told her to just turn around. Had a solid run at the end of a a pretty hard week. I've felt really trashed all week and today felt super. Proly should have did a tempo workout. But the miles were good enough this time.