Clyde's Comeback!

Over into Bloomington Hills and onto the new trail back up to River Road then up that into Jedora. A really relaxing, laid back run. Things felt pretty good for a Monday. I'm really going to try and get out every day this week. The last month or so have been crazy for us but now things have mellowed out and I can get back into a regular schedule. Even if the mileage isn't high I still want to be consistent. 

Ran out the south side of Little Valley today and then cut up into the industrial park by Blue Bunny and then back around into the Knolls before coming home. I was kind of exploring and trying to find a road or trail that would get me from that side of the valley over to the other side. I did have to go through some "no trespassing" zones but no one said anything to me. This was a totally different run than yesterday but I ended up being almost the same distance and finished exactly at the same 7:21 min per mile pace. I guess I'm locked in the zone... a slow zone but locked in none the less. 

Met up with Seven A. L. Hooper this morning up at the church. It was .5 miles up there from my house and 1.18 from Steve's. He tried to convince me it was over 2 miles. I wasn't having it and had to prove him wrong. We did a nice loop around Bloomington Hills and then around the back side of Stone Cliff to his house. So the loop it's self was 9 miles and add a mile from the house and back. 

Ended up running in the "zone" again. 7:22 pace for the run. I kept having to hold Steve back. He wanted to do 3 miles of tempo and I said "No no no". Good run and a really nice morning. Now I have to spread out 40 tons of dirt and rocks around the new lot. I know it's 40 because they weighed it before they delivered it.  

I finally got out to running club after a long hiatus. Once at the store I ran a little 1.2 mile shake out to try and get the stomach settled. We did the parkway loop and it was just ok for the first 6.7 or so then when we got to Green Springs we ran over on the golf course to get a drink and then past a pond... Next thing I know we are all out in the pond swimming. It felt oh so nice. Then we just ran it on back to the store. So the club ran 8.3 on that loop. Lots of fun tonight and glad I got out!

I did a big 20 mile mt bike ride this morning with my cousin Jordan. It was a lot of fun but by then last 4 or so miles both of us were trashed and could barely peddle back to the bikes. We rode from the trailhead in Bloomington up the Bear Paw trail to the water tank then down and over to do the Zen trail loop. At the end of this section I got a flat and kept pumping it up and riding. Then finally the slim in the tube filled the hole and I was able to keep riding. After Zen we rode up and did part of the Barrel trail with all the big jumps. Then over to Bear Paw and back down to the Jeep. It was a solid 3+ hour workout that left me dead by the end. We both ran out of water and were just hanging by a thread while trying to finish. Anyways it was good to get out and ride with Jordan and see his new bike. He's down from Logan for the weekend so I might catch a ride with him tomorrow.... depending on how the recovery goes this afternoon. 

Did the Utah hill run down to Mike's house. Thanks to him and his wife for driving us out and watering us at the finish. We started out and I was just going to run nice and easy around the same pace I've been running. But Bill and Ken took off and then Steve started to work up to them and I was with him. So we started to hit 6 min pace and then 5:30 and next thing I knew for a short time we were at 4:55 on the downhill as we passed Bill and Ken. Not the smartest thing to do since I haven't ran anything fast since last fall. I was thinking at around mile 7 that there was no way I would be able to keep rolling... but we got in a nice little groove and still hit 6 min pace until we pulled up into the cool down. It felt really good to run faster again. The hammy was tight and might be really tight tomorrow but it never had any sharp painful signs. So we'll see how it goes.  Glad that I got out and glad I got some turnover for once. If I don't feel too bad in the days to come maybe I'll start trying a faster workout every 10 days or so and see where it takes me. 

Finished the run at an avg of 6:40 min mile pace.