Clyde's Comeback!

Hurting. My legs are in a coma. My legs are in a coma. My legs are in a freaking coma from the race in Bryce Canyon yesterday. I'm not sure why they are soo much more sore than last year but they are.

Plus the British Open really sucked. What a big joke. No Americans played well enough to even be around the top, and then Greg Norman pulled off another Sunday choke leaving it to Paddy. Boo! 

8 mile run this morning. It was supposed to be an easy, recovery run. Well the pace was slow enough (7:55 Avg.) but there was nothing easy about it. I was right on the edge of calling it off and waiting to run when things didn't hurt so bad. But I went out and they still hurt real bad. First two miles in 18:40 and then I stopped looking. I tried to use the stick last night but it just hurt too bad to apply any pressure.

Isn't post race recovery great?

(Red Stratus 424.6)

6.2 mile run this evening. My wife wanted to go to her mom's so I had her drop me off at the Post office by River Road and I ran one lap on the loop course there and then over to her mom's in the Boulders. It was a pretty good run because the weather has been a little cooler than regular. My legs still hurt every step of the way but maybe not as bad as this morning. 7:26 pace Avg.

(Blue Stratus 428.9) 

0 miles this morning. I woke up with an upset stomach. All I had for dinner last night was Key Lime Pie and a shrimp cocktail. In that order, and I think the shrimp was just a little too old. 

The legs are still trashed anyways so I'll give them the morning, or maybe the day off and maybe I'll be able to get going again. The crazy thing is that last year on this day after Bryce I was in SLC and ran the last 10 miles or so of the Des News Marathon with Sasha. It wouldn't even be an option today with these legs.

Can anyone give me a logical reason why everyone is so much more trashed this year than last? 

21.3 mile bike ride mid-morning. In 2:13:05 = 5.3 miles of easy running. Although in two hours and some change I could get more than 5.3 miles in. This ride was around the world and back. Well from the house up to new overpass and out Grapevine trail, around Church rocks, through the tunnel, up to the Coral Canyon Mesa park, back around Coral Canyon and home via Dogtown. I opted to ride the bike because of the stomach issues and it worked out. The jury is still out on how the legs will respond to it. Pretty good workout.  

10.5 painful miles on the treadmill this evening. It wasn't cooling off so I went out on the treadmill to try and get things taken care of for the day. When I got on there was a slim chance that I was going to say on for the entire time... somehow I managed. It was like 1:22 or something- that makes over three and a half hours of training today. A little much maybe? 

12.2 mile morning run. Regular overpass loop. I'm really slow coming around but I guess in a few days I should be good to go. Finished the run pretty dehydrated and jumped on the scale to a new all time low of 144.5 lbs. No wonder I felt absolutely crappy this morning. 

(Landreth 340.9) 

7.8 mile run in the afternoon heat. It was 109 when I left the house!!! Up over the hill and down into GS. At the upper golf course restroom I stopped for water and a potty break. I had carried water to that point and it really wasn't too bad. Then I tried to take off again after stopping and the last 3 miles were a killer. The beauty of it is that by 5:30 or so I was done for the day and in the shower. 

(Blue Cumulus 457.05) 

15.2 mile BIG WORKOUT this morning with Dave and Logan at the DC. I've been stressing this workout since Bryce. The legs have been extra sore and I just didn't know if a harder workout was even possible. But I thought I'd show up and start it and see what happened. 

4 mile warm-up, 7 miles at around an avg of 5:57 pace, 4.2 miles of cool down.  We warmed up and cooled down above the DC and we did the tinman tempo down around Bloomington and back. The tempo course was very fair with a few ups and a few downs. I wanted to bail out the whole time but somehow stayed on board and actually went a little faster than planned. Now I'm sore- but really glad to have gotten a very solid workout in. I forgot my garmin so I don't have any exact details but this is the nuts and bolts of it.

(ss- 163.7) 

12.2 mile run at 4 a.m. around the overpass loop. It's nice out early. I just tried to relax and take it easy- things actually felt pretty good. After I got home I got some food and liquids in the body and then laid down for 2 hours with my legs elevated. I slept for an hour and a half of that (good sleep too). Then I got up and started getting ready to go out again. 

(Red Stratus 436.3) 

7.6 mile run at 9:30 a.m. up over the hill and around GS. It was warm and sunny when I went out for this run but not like it is in the afternoon. I've got a lot to do today and had to get these miles out of the way early. Overall I feel pretty good considering the short turn around. Maybe I'll try this method again.  

(Landreth 336.3) 

18.5 miles this morning in a bigger workout. The goal was to run the first 8 miles easy and warm-up good and then do a progression tempo getting faster all the way to the finish. Not anything that will send title waves but a solid workout. The only problem is I've been trashed all week and really haven't recovered from Bryce (1 week ago) yet!

8 miles in 1:00:34 and this went by really fast because I knew the work was coming during the last 10. So for the first part I just tried to relax and spend as little energy as possible so I'd have it later.

10 miles in 58:31... Well maybe the fact that my legs were so spent was a good thing because it held me back most of the workout from slamming out faster times and that really wasn't the point. It's really easy on that portion of the STG marathon course to get carried away and just go nuts. About 5.7 miles into the tempo (the top of Winchester Hill's hill) I stopped and almost pulled out of tempo gear. I felt like I was working too hard for the pace and both the calves and quads were hurting. I stretched out and talked to Logan and then he went on. Then I just started to work back and ended up feeling better, and running faster than I thought I'd be able to. 

The first few miles were at 6 min pace- even coming down Snow Canyon was right around 6 min pace and then I moved to 5:30 pace for a few miles and finished with a 5:16. Then only .5 miles of cool-down back to the running store. 

Glad to have this week in the books. Now the rest of the day and tomorrow I need to heal the legs up Finally after Bryce. Then jump into a fairly solid week of training again.

(White Cumulus 440.1)  

6.2 mile bike ride = 1.5 miles of easy running. I was dying to get out on the bike the evening. I finally got out about 8 p.m and had a good little ride over to KFC to meet my grandma (she had some home grown grapes for me) then back to the house to drop of the grapes and then up the trail above Middleton around and out by the Senior park above the road. Kind of fun to go explore, but I didn't do too much because I'm trying to get the legs recovered.