Clyde's Comeback!

12.3 mile morning loop. Regular overpass loop for the most part. My stomach had 2 too many lasagna servings sitting in it from Sunday afternoon. So that made for some nice memories. 

(White Cumulus 421.6) 

Marathon morning around town on the bike. Not really too many miles just the time it took at the stops. Finally home at 2 p.m.

10.4 miles on the bike = 2.6 miles of easy running.  

9 mile run tonight with the club. Weather was picture perfect. A small rain on the first few miles and then just a very pleasant evening. We don't get this too much in STG. I ran a few more miles today than I had planned but due to the lovely weather I couldn't help myself.

(blue Cumulus 449.25) 

10 mile run up over the hill and down into GS then around Middleton a few times to make it an even 10. I went to April yesterday and she really worked my legs over. They didn't really bother me too much last night on the club run but this morning they were like rail road ties, the kind that have been ran over by the train already. Anyways I'm going to start my taper now and maybe take the rest of the week very easy to see if I can even race. About half way through my visit to April last night she said "So you've got a race next weekend"? and I was like "no this weekend". The she was like "oh". So hopefully things will come together.

(Blue Stratus 422.7)

5.6 miles of bike = 1.4 easy mils of running

Peer Pressure is a unique thing. I went to this race tonight to just go support the event and se some friends. When I walk up to the event however I see Logan with a glow stick around his head and he say's "they are giving out some cool stuff for the top 3, "eye on the prize". So my plans change from wanting to run an easy jog with my wife to now trying to warm-up with Logan and wishing that I hadn't eaten this massive PB and honey sandwich within the hour of coming. We ran the course for a warm-up and it was a 1.53 mile loop around St. James place.

1. 4:55- No this wasn't one of those cool downhill miles. The course is an oval that sits on a gradual side hill so every step you take down- you also climb back up. I'd say this mile was about half and half. We went out fast with all the high school kids.

2. 5:19- Now Hayden, Logan, and myself have dropped everyone and we just settle into the tempo run.

3. 5:45- At the start of this mile I realize no one was going to catch us and when Logan says how are you doing I say I'm going to back off because there was no need to hammer it. So he and Hyaden kind of gap me a little for a while and then were nice enough to slow down on the last 400m and we all ran in together. I had the course at 3.05. Pretty close for not being certified. Steve O had it at 3.07 so right there depending on the tangents.

1 mile cool down.

This was a great race. A really great turn out and very fun to see so many old friends from around town. I think there were around 600 people there and all the proceeds go to track scholarships for local high school students. Really cool.

I knew Chelsi from her days as a cheerleader when I coached at Dixie high. She was always so positive and made sure to support everyone on our team not just the studs. Hopefully this will be something that continues to happen every year and that it will only get bigger. I'm really glad my wife and I went.

7.2 mile run this morning up through GS and then over the trail back home. Last night could have been a big mistake. The legs are very trashed now. After the deep tissue work over with April the other day I was going to take it very easy until the race on Saturday. Then like a bone head I went and ran this race last night and now I'm in the boat I'm in. The diaphragm was tight this morning for the first time in a couple weeks, but by the end of the run it felt o.k.  The plan for the rest of the week is to rest and run everything very easy, and short.

(Landreth 324.7)
 

10.5 mile bike ride with Mik'L = 2.6 miles of easy running. 6.5 miles this morning and 4 miles tonight over to the church and back. 

I decided not to run this afternoon because the body is just trashed. I'll put in a solid core workout and then go to a ward party.  

We went to the ward party on our bikes. Mik'L bought a bike yesterday and now we can go on cool bike rides together.  

6.8 miles this morning. Ran up into GS to the golf course and then did 1.25 on the grass in the five fingers and then back home. The legs felt sluggy but better than the last couple of days.

(Red Stratus 5.55)

6.9 mile run with the club tonight. Just an easy little diddy. I really needed to go about 5 miles into it but held off until I got home.

4 easy miles this morning. Out and back up into GS. I need a miracle between now and tomorrow morning before the race. I just feel flat. I just feel like my body needs to be zapped by electricity to wake up. Hopefully one more day will give me a chance or this could be ugly.

(Landreth-328.7)

3 miles this evening in Bryce with Dave. Just a little final shake out before the race tomorrow.

(SS#2- 33.2)

I road up to the race with Dave H, his brother James H, and their dad and we slept in James camp trailer in the town where the race finished. I owe a big thanks to all of them for letting me tag a long and for being so generous. You guys ROCK and roll!

The race today went good. It wasn't an amazing performance where I felt like I was really able to let it go, but I didn't have any issues (stomach, diaphragm, other) and was able to just run so that was very nice. Coming into this race I've been telling Mik'L all week that I could end up running a 1:12 or 1:14. I've just been feeling "not fast" what so ever. My training also has been pretty rigorous and not conducive to speed. So under all the circumstances this was a good race. At the start there was a lot of trouble and I just wanted to run my own race. So when the gun went off the 6 guys who beat me all went out pretty aggressively and I just slowly worked into the race. By mile 3 I was a good deal back from all of them and had to spend the rest of the race trying to reel someone in.

1. 5:29- Everyone goes out fast and I'm in 7th and stay in 7th the rest of the race.

2. 5:38- Trying to get warmed up. I should have did a 3 mile warm-up like I'd planned.

3. 4:55- The step downhill.

4. 5:00- Trying to stay relaxed as I watch everyone get farther and farther away.

5. 5:11- Holding my own.

6. 5:12- Doing better here than last year at this point.

7. 5:15- A good mile as the course flattens out. Now I'm slowly starting to come back on some of the guys ahead of me.

8. 5:30- My two worst miles mentally are 8,9

9. 5:47- Losing it.

10. 5:41- Actually start getting back on the bus and wanting to go after someone.

11. 5:33- I'm coming back.

12. 5:39- Still feeling good and gaining on the Italian and Dave, but now I'm running out of course.

13. 5:34- Ran fairly well through here.

:21 seconds on the last .1... Finished the race feeling good and just realized I lost too much in the first 3 miles of the race. But it's o.k.

Not bummed at all about place or time really. Not thrilled either because there was a lot of cash up for grabs and for the second year in a row I couldn't get my hands on it.

After talking and eating for a while we went for a cool down and now I really feel how trashed my body is. I'm really sore at this point. It's over and another one in the books. Now to push my training into St. George turbo gear so I can get ready to pound that one out.

I finished behind. 1. Logan, 2. Mike V. 3. Cedar City kid who is at BYU 4. Mike V's friend from Runners Corner, 5. Dave the Brave Holt, 6. The Italian guy.

(SS#2- 49.4)

7 mile bike ride = 1.75 mile of easy running. I went out because my bike was crying to be road and I wanted to see if that would help the legs bounce out of the coma they were in.