Clyde's Comeback!

DC loop in reverse. It was a Monday run for sure as the legs were heavy and the stomach was full. However my quads did feel better than they did all last week. I'm guessing the legs were really heavy because April worked them over on Saturday and this was the first run since. Hoping to make some progress this week. But we'll see how I feel come Thursday night/ Friday morning. 

10.1 miles on the DC loop again this afternoon (same direction as the morning). It was cloudy most of the day and kept the temps down so I decided to capitalize on the situation and get a few extra miles in. Although once I got running the sun came out for basically the first 5 miles of the run then I got clouds again. Temps were still very reasonable for the time of year. I felt pretty good other than one potty stop at the golf course. There's no question I feel better than last week- both in the quads and general overall health as I think I'm finally getting over a 2 week bug. 

Around the Stone Cliff loop, then down into B-hills, back to River Road and around Little Valley before coming home. 7:10 avg. Felt semi sore but runnable. Just kind of tight all over. Had lovely weather and even a few sprinkles on the first couple miles. 

7.5 miles pushing Myler up in Cedar City. Mik'L had a meeting with one of our properties up there so I decided to drive her up and do my p.m run up there. We left from the Hampton Inn by the Wal Mart and ran back down a canyon behind the Wal Mart that drops down out behind west Cedar. Then we ran back up into town and over to the SUU campus. I don't think I've set foot on that place since I graduated back in 2004 so we did a little campus tour. Then back up around Cedar High and over the freeway and back up to where we started. The run was killer. A Lot of climbing+ extra altitude+ pushing Myler= one tired daddy. 

Up early to get my run in before Mik'L could do her's at 7 a.m. I basically did the same loop as I did last Saturday. Out to River Road, over to Bloomington, around Bloomington loop, back up the river trail to the DC, around Morningside, then down River Road back to the house. It was the first clear morning in a while and it wasn't really humid. So if you can call 65 F cool it was the coolest morning in weeks. Glad to be done running for the day and will enjoy the evening off. 

DC loop. Had a bad nights sleep and am dealing with some bad allergies. So just making it around the loop this morning was a victory. Feeling like I need a RedBull in life right now. 

10 miles tonight at the club. The boys started picking it up around mile 3. I have had 2 weeks in a row of awful club runs so I wanted to day to be good. So I just tried to latch on and go with Dave and Logan. It's the hardest I've ran since UV and the best run I've had in some time. Didn't push it really hard but made myself focus and leave the comfort zone. Once we got going it was a steady push all the way back around. Ended with a 6:26 avg for the run. 

Middle B-hills loop with just a little more added on to run over to the golf course potty. I was dead tired this morning and when the alarm went off I was deep in my REM sleep. Then I was rushed for time so I was out running in less than 15 min's from the time the alarm went off... hence I think I slept through the first 3 or 4 miles. Tried to hurry along to get home and get things in order before going to Sandhollow.  7:03 avg. 

Met up with Dave and Logan at the Navajo trailhead to do the Utah Mt loop run. We went out 4 miles to the junction and dropped water. Then did two upper loops and then came back to the cars. The temps were great for this time of year. We started around 5:30 a.m and it was around 68 F. By the time we finished it was warm up not too bad. Pace was steady. This loop is all on dirt/ rocky roads so you can't run it fast... plus there are  a lot of big hills to climb. I'm too lazy to check my garmin for the avg pace. Maybe later. 

Glad to finish off a solid week of mileage. Hope to cut it back next week and run a good 10k at Enterprise. Then really taper the following week before running the marathon in Alaska.