Clyde's Comeback!

DC loop with a Secret st finish. Kind of sort of this morning. Noting great nothing too bad. Just going through the motions. 

Middle B-hills loop this afternoon and secret st at the end. The high for the day was 98 F and I went out at 4:55 p.m so pretty much caught the hottest part of the day. Just took it super EZ as to not tap out the system early in the week. Ended up feeling pretty good when I got home. 

DC then the Secret St. Really kind of in a rutt right now. Just draggin on almost every run. The marathon at the first of June can't come quick enough as I'm ready for some kind of break from the day to day grind. Another week and a half and then I can start the taper... oh how sweet that sounds. The overnight low was only 68 F so it was warm out this morning and I'm preparing for a very hot afternoon.

Morning run here. Steven Abraham Lincoln Hooper was my only companion this morning. I won't hold it against Logan and Dave for not coming. Better they rest up and recover now. Steve and I busted out a new DC loop. Kind a little tour up and around St. James place and then around the DC. We extended around the park and with the couple I did before Steve got here I was at 15.1 once we got to the house... PERFECT. Because that's all I wanted. Felt a little better after not running last night. Cooler temps this morning helped too at 57F. 

DC loop. Nice morning- calm and around 61 F when I got out at 6:20 a.m. Relaxed for the first 2.5 and hit a porta potty. Then tried to work on my form for the rest of the run. Smoother, quicker, and more efficient turnover. This naturally made the pace faster. No watch but the pace was honest all the way back around. Form is kind of in a rut. Just feel mechanical. Sucks because 3 weeks ago I was feeling on top of the world with running and it's seemed to kind of slip through my fingers the last couple weeks. In the next couple weeks before Ojai I need to rally the troops and try and get some MOJO back. 

9.5 miles at club tonight. Horrible horrible run tonight. When I arrived it was 98 F and when I left it was 96 F. But that wasn't the worst of it. The wind was howling. It was coming from the SW so hard that it would totally stop us or throw us across the bike path. It just beat me up big time and that was in the first 2.4 miles down to the Man-o-war bridge. My quads were screaming. Tonight only Aaron and I showed so we still kept a pretty solid pace. But by the time we got to River Road and turned back into the wind I was done and now totally dehydrated. Ran to 9 miles. Then turned off the watch and ran/ walked it in. I can't remember the last time I had to walk a run in... Just felt horrible. Got home and my weight was 146 and basically as low as I possibly get. My wife is battling a fever and sore throat and I think I'm coming down with the start of something. 

St. James/ DC loop. Was totally dehydrated last night and drank like a fish. Still woke up at 5 a.m and had a super dry mouth and sore throat. Drank about 1.5 lbs of cytomax. Felt pretty trashed and kind of sick. But pushed myself out the door at 8 a.m after Mik'L got done with her run. The overnight low was 71 F and it was 74 F by the time I got out- then 86F by the time I got home. Just kept it super EZ and didn't overwork anything. 7:09 avg to finish up. Got on the scale after the run to see a new all time running low of 145.5 lbs.  Mik'L said I looked "grey" when I walked in the door. Now hoping for  a miraculous recovery so I can do a 20 mile workout Saturday morning... we'll see:)

Another long run bites the dust. Met up at the Summit Gym and did a 20 miler with Steve and Aaron. Started out into the fields and basically hit our summer tempo loop back over to River Road. Then basically another loop on the Thursday club loop down into Bloomington. Pace kind of just stared a little faster than normal and just kind of stayed uptempo all run. We had a lot of bathroom stops in the first 12 miles which made it hard to get going then stop then try to get going again then stop.... But by the time we got to the DC on the way down with roughly 8 miles to go we had our "issues" worked out and were able to keep a solid push back- down to Man-o-war, up to Pilot and back up the new trail to River Road. Had at least 12 miles at 6 min or faster pace with the last two at 5:25, 5:28 to finish off the tempo. Then one mile cool down. Ended with a 6:15 avg for the 20 miles. So all around a pretty solid run at the end of my roughest week so far this year- with kind of being sick and very dehydrated a couple times over the week. Just about to the taper. One week to go.