Clyde's Comeback!

River Road loop this morning. The quads are really sore. No doubt their more sore now then after SLC marathon a few weeks ago. I guess I needed more downhill training than I thought. This morning I just tried to keep the legs moving in smooth flow as to not do any more damage. Almost cut it short at around 5 miles but decided to do the whole loop. We'll see if I run again today. 

9.1 miles this evening. Same loop as this morning. In hind sight I shouldn't have gone so far today. The quads are really sore and I just kept thinking they'd loosen up... but they didn't. However the weather was cool and fairly nice other than some wind. So I decided to get in a few. The lunch I had was riding dirty today. 

Middle B-hills loop. Quads are sore and I have a good blister on my little toe on the left foot. Something else left over from Saturday's run that I didn't realize until Monday nights run. I popped it last night and this morning it hurt. Can't believe how sore the quads are. Nothing else is but they more than make up for anything else. Won't be doing 800's tonight... have to wait until the soreness moves out. 

9.2 miles this afternoon. I dropped Myler off at my in-laws house and just ran from there. Looped into B-hills around the DC and all over eye yi yi. Legs finally loosened up a little. But any downhill made the quads hurt. Still held a solid clip and I didn't have a watch but I'm guessing it was under or around 7 min pace avg. 

River road loop. Ran into Scott a couple times during his run. I was a little blowy but overall a good, cool morning to run. I'll take the cooler weather as long as it lasts. It seems once it gets hot the summer lasts for ever. Legs felt pretty good but not ready for any type of workout. 

8.1 mile run this evening. Regular old B-hills loop in revers. Windy but I didn't try to push any pace so it wasn't too bad. The cool temps made the run worth it. Things feel more like the end of Feb than the middle of May. 

Club run. I didn't run this morning. Met at the DC for the regular loop with the regular guys... but it wasn't a regular run. We were greeted with a downpour. Plus the pace was fast all night. We hit a 6:29 avg for the run and did some faster stuff back up the trail. My legs couldn't take it. Quads were shot by the end. Hope to get them recovered and feeling good again. 

EZ run with Taylor this morning. Did the River road loop at a 7:14 avg. My legs are really hammered... just haven't recovered from Saturday and then last nights hard push didn't help. So I was glad to take it EZ and chit chat with Taylor. It was a great morning which started off with some fog and had the nice smell of rain- as it rained a little last night. Now I'm going up to Provo so I'll see ya in the 801!

Long Run. Up at 4:30 a.m. and running by 4:50. We were up in Orem staying at Mik'L's aunts house so I did an out and back from her house up the Provo Canyon. From the aunts house to the mouth of the canyon it's exactly 3 miles then I ran up the trail until it ended then got on the road and went through the first tunnel and a little more then than hit 10 miles out in a 7:03 avg. On the way back I stayed on the road to practice up for UVM. Hit the 7 back down to the mouth of the canyon in  a 5:53 avg. I didn't want to do much more than Tinman effort. The first 2.5 miles were flat or uphill and a little over 6:15 pace. So I really didn't get anything in the 5:30's until around 3 miles in. Coming back down the road ended up being about .3 shorter than going up on the trail so when I got to the mouth of the canyon I just stayed on the road heading to Provo until the garmin clicked to the 7th mile. Then I had to back track until I was heading back into north Orem.

Finish the last 3.3 miles cooling down at 6:30 avg. 

It was a really peaceful and super morning to run. One of the most laid back 20 milers I've ever ran. Seemed like I was a sleep and woke up with only the cool down left. Temps were perfect and just a little breeze in my face coming back down the canyon. Felt good.