Clyde's Comeback!

Met up with Dave, Logan and Kyle early at the running store. Then we drove up above Leeds and ran the dirt road back to STG that drops in above the turkey farm. I took my truck over on turkey farm road at the end of the pavement and then my father-in-law took all of us up to Leeds. We were running by 5:30 and it was just a beautiful morning as the sun came up. This course has LOTS of hills. Maybe 20 hills and a couple of them are over a mile long. So the pace wasn't fast but we kept it honest to the point that Logan puked a couple times. Pretty funny scene implanted in my mind forever:). Anyways a great way to start off a holiday as we were done and back at the truck by 8:20. 

Pushed Myler around the inner B-hills loop. It was hard to get out today. I was so busy yesterday (got up at 4:20 a.m and in bed after 10 p.m). So this morning I was dragging. Once out I wasn't really into it as I mentally counted down the miles until we finished. My legs are a little sore from the long run yesterday. 

I hope to get out again today but will have to see. It's our 9 year anniversary today. So after the busy work day Mik'L and I hope to get out for the evening for at least dinner. Anyways I'm really thankful for such a sweet little lady to spend eternity with. Like I always say she's a Trooper.  

River loop. I was a little sore in the quads through the first 5 miles this morning but they loosened up and I ran fairly well the last 3 miles. It was a nice cooler morning before the day starts to heat up. It will be upper 90's today with temps over 100 coming by Friday or Saturday for the first time in 2010. I'm not ready to deal with it. But on the flipside this has been a cooler spring (windy too) and normally we'd have already seen temps at or over the 100F mark. 

River loop this evening. High of 96F today but when I went out at 6 it didn't feel too bad. There was a comfortable breeze and a slight overcast. At first my legs felt pretty good and within 2 miles I was striding a long fairly quick. But shortly after that the legs turned into 1,000 lb weights. I couldn't get things going to save my life. I could only focus on trying to maintain good form and made my way around the loop.  

Pushed Myler around the River loop. Legs felt pretty good and twas a pretty good run. Picked it up to 5:30 pace for a half mile or so to try and catch a runner up ahead that I thought was Bishop Thompson. But he didn't turn into Jedora and then I realized it wasn't Bishop. 

8.5 miles tonight with the club. It was 96 when I pulled into the parking lot before the run. We started out by running up to the gas station and back to wait for any stragglers. Then went on to run the Bloomington loop. For the first 3-4 miles we kept saying "it sure doesn't feel like it's 96" "it's not bad at all". By the finishing 3 miles it felt like it was over 100 and getting hotter every step. I was so dehydrated by the time  I got back... it was ugly. The pace kept getting faster and faster too. I think we just wanted to get done. I guess summer is finally here.  

River loop this  morning with Paul H. and Logan. We just ran chatty pace and that was perfectly fine with me. I feel trashed and will be taking the rest of the day off from running. It was coolish this morning but is projected to be 100 today so no running this afternoon won't hurt my feelings. 

Didn't run today. The hammy was a little tight on Thurs and Fri so I wanted to give it some time off and try and be fully rested going into the marathon next week. It felt great to sleep in to 8:08 a.m.