Clyde's Comeback!

Mik'L was sick Saturday morning when I got home from my long run. Vomiting, body aches, fever. It was harsh. I tried to stay away from her and help her at the same time. In the end I got it. Really sick Sunday afternoon and Monday. Wanted to die. It just felt that uncomfortable. 

Finally got a run in this week. It was kind of funky but I got it in. Your body is always a little slow to respond after being sick- today was no different. I had sections where I felt smooth and good and other sections where I had two size 16 left feet. I just couldn't get things going and then I could (back and forth it went this morning). Anyways hope to salvage my last real week before the marathon next week. Wont try and kill it but need to get a few miles under my belt. 

Had a semi dia-stomach all day and... Didn't want to run in the heat so I bailed on it this afternoon. 

Regular B-hills loop. It was a super morning. 64 F is just peachy for a July morning. Legs felt so so and stomach was about 90% better. Just glad to get out and feel the coolness on my baby soft skin. 

Club run this evening. Some folks didn't want to do my little river run (sad face) and other showed up who didn't know about it. So we just did the regular old loop. Nothing really fast but a solid push though out the run. I didn't check the garmin but we had to have beat the 7 min guy. It was hot tonight and more than anything DRY. I had a dry throat and mouth 4 miles in and was covered in salt by the end of the run. Got home and couldn't drink enough.

Ran the extended Painters loop that I've did a couple times the last few weeks. Legs felt sore and heavy for the entire run. Never really got into this one. My garmin wasn't charged so it basically served as a arm weight and judging from it's (time) this run was about 1:47:00 give or take. The morning was picture perfect. I left early and it was 66 F and got home just as the sun was coming up and it had dropped to 62 F. I think that's the lowest it's been all summer. Love it!

Kind of a fun race/ workout this morning. Different course from years past. This one is flattish with a few rollers. Overall pretty fun and fair. Now I want to go run it all out when I'm feeling good. Just because it's about the fairest thing around here. 

I've been feeling sickish all week coming off actually being really sick earlier in the week. So I didn't feel like really racing but still wanted to try and get the legs to turn over a little before I run the marathon up in Alaska next week. Mik'L and I road up with Mike and Billy boy- we got there early enough to get in just over a 4 mile warm up. 

Dave came up on the bus and we also ran in to Glen who was in town from Oregon. I knew I wasn't going to go super hard so I really wasn't stressed about it. Wish more races were like this. My garmin also just wouldn't work up there. I plugged it in last night but went to fire it up before the race and it just blanked. So I had no idea what pace I was going. 

The race started and Dave, Glen and I went out with Ryan right behind us. The three of us chit chatted for around a half mile or so and then those two headed out. I just hung back and Ryan actually caught up and passed me for about a mile then I passed him back around mile 3. I just kept the pace steady while not killing myself. As we came into town I was only about 25 seconds behind Dave and Glen and though that was pretty good considering I was kind of just chillin. But then almost right after that they more than doubled the gap and I watched them go away.

When I finished I had no idea what the time I had run or how fast the spits were. Just felt pretty good and then did 4 miles of cool down with Dave.

Fun morning even though we got up at 4:30 to do it. Mik'L ran the 10 k too and did great. Beat her goal time and ran under 10 min pace. Good job Kellers!