Clyde's Comeback!

Early morning run down from the DC around the fields and into Bloomington Hills then back. I decided I'd do a longish run this morning after the last two weeks have been junk. Depending on how this run went and how I felt it would give me the info I'd need to decide what to do about Squaw. 

So I started out nice and slow trying to really warm up and give the body time to get going. Hit 8 miles in 1:00 right on then too a GU at 10 miles and turned around. On the way back I was feeling good and the form felt great so next thing I know I'm hitting 6:10's for a few. Along here I pass Dave and almost jump in with him as he was doing tinman but I quickly re thought the act and opted out. Got back to the car in 2:27 hitting around 7:18 min mile pace for the run. I felt really good and on days where I feel like I just want to stop distance running I should reflect back to how wonderful it was this morning to be out while the sun was coming up and getting a good workout in.

So I'm going to wait until mid day to decide for sue. I'll see then how I feel and where we are at with the house stuff.  

Happy Anniversary to Mik'L and I. 8 glorious years and an eternity to go. She's great and you all know she puts up with a lot with me. Love you little sweet pie:) 

Nothing yet today. I'm pretty sore from yesterday as I suspected I would be. My wife and I have decided that I'll have to pass on running Squaw Peak this week. With the last couple weeks of bad health I'm not really up for a 50 miler... One other thing is we bought a new house yesterday and will be starting the moving process this week and next. I've got a million things to do between cleaning the new house, packing up our stuff here, moving it all over there, and then starting block walls and landscaping over there. So outside of not feeling strong enough to run the race I just don't have time to think about it anymore. 

As for running in general I'll try and get myself healthy again with no races planned at all. My hammy continues to pull and ache and it really does me no good to log miles and miles because improvement is limited with the continued pain. Basically I won't be running fast until I can be running pain free. Anyways thats where I'm at right now. We are super pumped about the new house. For us it's going to be way nice and it's in a great running location with lots of flat options in every direction. Should be fun.  

I left Mik'L's truck over at the office last night just so I had to get up this morning and run over there to get it. This turned out to be a pretty good strategy as when I got up I really didn't want to run but had to stick to the plan. Once out the door I felt kind of sore and tight for the first 3 miles but after I warmed up I felt fairly good. Went down past Costco and over behind the animal shelter to where the Mesquito trail starts. I was going to take it across to the road but once I got most of the way across it the trail was all tore up and closed. So I had to back track and then finally got to the road. Hit the river trail down and then up to the office. Good run. 

It looks like we will be moving on this Saturday morning. Unless something crazy happens with closing and loan crap. But if things go as planned we would take any help we can get.  

Got up and did the old skool GS loop and maybe bid it a farewell. I've ran thousands of miles around that loop the last three years and for some reason just love it in a weird way. I can almost turn the body onto auto pilot and just let it go. I guess if this house doesn't close then I'll be here still and maybe keep running it for another 3 years. But things are moving along. 

As for a firm moving day we keep jumping all over the place due to the bank. I'd love to have any help but we may not know until the day before what day it will be. Totally sucks and we are just stressed about everything right now but I guess in two weeks we won't even remember what was going on.  

I'll keep things posted... 

Packed and moved some of the stuff today. We closed on the house at noon. The weather has been so nice. Cooler than I've ever seen it this time of year in STG.

Big move day. Up at 4:20 a.m to start getting things going. Some of the running club came and helped. Mike had a nice big 28 ft white trailer to haul stuff, and a flat bed on the truck and a flat bed trailer that I pulled. So we all met at 9 a.m at our old house and by 11:30 a.m we were unloaded at the new house. Great work guys we couldn't have done it without you! Thanks so much!