Clyde's Comeback!

Drive home from Park City. 

10 mile run this morning. Part of the overpass loop only cut out Dogtown. I had a juicy stomach this morning from a long weekend of uncontrolled food consumption. This seems to be a trend for me on Mondays. My sore shoulder (from the bike crash on Friday) hurts pretty bad as well. There is a slight chance it could be broken or dislocated or something. The good news is I can run all the miles I want, the bad news is it really hurts to try and push any kind of pace. So that could end up being a real issue. Hopefully it will feel better every day.

I'll keep the miles at 100 or just under for the week. I'll most likely race a 5k on Saturday (Torrey Apple Days 5K) and would like to gauge my fitness from last years race- baring it's the same course.

(Blue Cumulus 405.25)

10 mile run this evening with the club. We'll call it Meat Grinder Monday's in the STG. We met up at the DC and ran over to the base of Webb Hill and ran it 3x with the downhill as a recovery. It is .92 up and the same down. In that distance you go from 2,610 to 3,150 in elevation- plus it's not even a real dirt road- very rocky and slick. One more thing it was at least 100 degrees.

1. 7:35- Did good on this one. Mouth got very dry. 

2. 7:50- Very thirsty again. I'll take way more water next week.

3. 8:15- Just totally lost it on this one. My quads wouldn't even go.

Not bad for a first timer this year on this workout. The goal is to do it once a week the rest of the summer and maybe add one more repeat but work on bringing the times down. If we can keep it up we'll all be running like champs at the end of the summer.

FEAR THIS!

(Red Stratus) 

10 mile overpass loop. The legs felt heavy, slow and blah this morning- plus it really felt hot. I struggled through the run and made it back home to jump on the scale- 145 lbs. Fairly low for me. Also saw a little snake on the dirt road up by the freeway.  I didn't get close enough to see what kind it was... I hate snakes.

(Red Stratus) 

12.8 mile bike ride = 3.2 miles easy running. Out in the heat on this one. I had to go all over town on this one after 10 a.m. Bike shop, church clothing store, and the mall. I finally got home right at noon. Actual biking time was 1:10 

6.7 mile GS loop extended a little for water. It was 105 when I left the house and the heat caught up to me on the last two miles. It must be a combination of the hill yesterday, the bike ride today and the heat with all of it. Because I really lost it on the run tonight. I struggled to even keep running and I never get that way. Anyways got home and got some fluid and now I'll hope to sleep it off and start over in the morning.

12.2 slow miles this morning around the overpass loop. When I went to bed last night my legs were crampy and I thought I had about a 20% chance of running this morning. I ended up being able to get out and make it through the run but I struggled. I'm guessing the hill workout really trashed the system. Plus the diaphragm was tight this morning for the first time since the Thursday before WBR, and my shoulder is really jacked up. Anything else...

Looking forward to going to Torrey this weekend and getting out of this blasted heat. I'll most likely keep all the miles nice and easy the rest of the week, and only do the 5K if I'm feeling very spry Saturday morning.

(Landreth) 

5.8 miles on the treadmill. The Spectrum web site said it was 119, mine said it was 112 and I'm guessing out on the blacktop it was even hotter. So I stayed in and hit the machine up. I had to cut it a little short because I'm going to the driving range with the young men... that should be fun in the heat? I may jump back on when we get done or maybe I'll just pack it in for the day.  

13.5 mile run this morning. Over around GS and then up the Millcreek trail to the PL trail and across it to the water tank, then around industrial back home. I really, really didn't want to go out this morning. The shoulder was killing me and I decided it's time for a Dr's visit. But I went out anyways... and it wasn't too bad. In fact I had a pretty good run overall. Climbing the couple hills up to the water tank about killed me but other than that I really felt pretty good. The legs seemed to swing from the hips very well along the trail portion and through the sand which usually is rather challenging. 

(White Cumulus) 

7.2 mile run today at noon. It was 97 when I left and 104 when I got home. We are driving up to Torrey this afternoon so I wanted to get the run out of the way. It wasn't too bad out, and I felt like I ran better than I've been running all week. Glad it's over and now up to 6,800 feet at my uncles house. Hopefully it will be cooler.

(Blue Stratus) 

8 miles this morning from Torrey down to Capital Reef and back. Nothing amazing. I did hit the first 3.5 miles at tempo effort... very hard at the altitude. 

(Landreth) 

12.9 mile insane mountain bike ride = 3.3 easy miles of running. Worked my tail off going up, up, and up some nasty sandy trail. We had a great day fishing on the Boulder and then I came back and road the Sandcreek loop on the bike. Hopefully some of this altitude training (WBR, Park City last week, and Torrey this week) will start to open up my lungs. 

I decided to do an extension of the race that the guys ran yesterday. I'll call this the "off campus" version. I did a 10.8 mile hilly loop (twice) around Torrey and Teasdale, Utah that roams from 6,750 ft to 7,500 ft in elevation. I set up one aid station at the halfway point with a Gu and a water and one potty stop about 5.5 miles into the run. There was a lot of trouble at the start... Me and Father time, and he never slows down. 

I got going very slow and didn't care too much. The altitude seems to really work on me here. I hit the first 8 miles in 1:00:04 and was having a hard time getting going- I hit the halfway point in 1:15:45. Then around mile 12 I started to loosen up and hit 16 miles at 1:54 something and then 20 miles in 2:18. Thats 3 min's slower than the 20 miles I ran last week in STG. However this course was at least 15-25 seconds per mile slower. So actually I ran pretty well. I finished with a 2:24- just about a 6 min negative split. On the second lap I really felt like things were rolling and was happy I did the run. I've been running pretty crappy for a few weeks and today was a positive that I really needed.

It was a nice morning. A little warmer than I thought it would be because there was some cloud cover last night that kept things cool. However once the sun came up those same clouds kept the sun away longer.

Now it's time to eat, and relax the rest of the weekend up here.

(SS- )