Clyde's Comeback!

A.M.

River loop. Legs felt really good. No soreness and actually they kind of wanted to "go". But I resisted the temptation and just ran nice and relaxed until the bathroom at mile 6. There I had to make a pit stop and then kind of picked it up for the rest of the run. Looking forward to kind of ramping back up the mileage this week. Not going to hit anything amazing but somewhere in the 80 mpw range. I've got to go to Park City this weekend (thurs or fri) so I'll try and hit the fist part of the week a little harder to give myself a break on the days while we are up there. 

P.M.

Mik'L got me a new Garmin 405 for fathers day so I finally had a reliable unit to run with again. So that being the case I went out into the fields then back around Stone Cliff to the river trail and in to B-hills then back home. It was a version of a run I did last summer. Highlights of the run was that it was freaking hot. Really hot and thats going to be hard to deal with this summer. Then once I got down to the golf course I was going over to the water to get a drink and I got stung in the had by a wasp, hornet or bee. It came out of no where and drew blood on contact. I think that is the first time I've ever been stung. Ouch! It really hurt. So other than the heat and being stung it was a fun run playing with the new Garmin. Hopefully I can get as many miles with this one as the last one I wore out.  

A.M.

Logan and Steve came over early this morning for a run. We went up by the new airport and around the fields loop. It was a great morning. Temps early have been nice- even cool. Pace was slow and chatty. Nice run to start the day. 

P.M.

I didn't want to brave the heat today so I ran on the treadmill. It was good because I finished watching Valkyrie. A pretty good movie but what a crazy real life story. I just wish the bomb would have got Hitler and all those guys would have not be executed. So my blood was pumping and the time flew while on the machine.  

Started out with the river loop and then at mile 6 I looped back around B-hills and the Knolls to extend the run a little. I slept horrible and woke up feeling dead. So I thought the run was just going to be a bummer. But once out I just worked on form and it wasn't too bad. Still slow with a 7:33 avg but it wasn't as physically hard as I was expecting. After I got home I went and worked on the ditch bank where I'm attempting to level off so I can eventually put a nice chicken coop there. But it was physically harder than expected and now my hands have blisters... and I was wearing gloves. 

4 miles this evening on the treadmill. Just logging some miles. Nothing else really to say.  

Ran this morning with Paul H. We did the same loop out around the fields and Stone Cliff that I did the other day. Another beautiful morning out before a hellishly hot day. We had a great run and even ran into Steven Abraham Lincoln and his barefoot running buddies doing some Webb hill repeats. 

Club run tonight at my house with the lads. We did the middle B-hills loop. It was hot and no one was really into it so the run was shortish. Steve dropped early with some stommy issues. Then the Holt's and I finished up to find him on my front lawn. Then I made the boys work and help me move my new chicken coop around. The sucker is heavy. But now it's pretty well all set up I'll just have to do some fine tuning next week after we get back from Park City. 

Regular River loop this morning. The whole run felt undaunting. I'm dead. Haven't slept much this week- I think it's the full moon. Maybe I'm a werewolf. Anyways just slugged through it. Maybe the only run I do today. We are driving up to Park City this morning for the weekend so I might run tonight up there or I might not. Looking forward to getting out of the heat.  

I did an out and back run from our room north on the Olympic trail. The first 5 miles were downhill and I just tried to relax and enjoy the cool mountain air. I went out at an avg of 7:09 pace. Then on the way back it was all uphill and I decided to make a little game out of it. Try to negative split going back with the uphill climing. Came back in a 6:59 avg. Not anything crazy fast but with the uphill and the elevation it was worth calling it a Tinman effort.

Then after I got done running I did a mutha of a mt bike ride going out and back on the mid mountian trail. It was basically a 4 hour workout ontop of the run. Won't count any mileage as I didn't wear the garmin and don't know how far I actually went. I will say that I was SO trashed when I finally got back to town. I went to Burger King (because I was starving) and ordered like 7 things off the dollar menu and was still hungry. Then road back to the room. Fun ride and I only went over the handle bars 3 times... but none of the wrecks were that serious however I will be super sore tomorrow.