Clyde's Comeback!

Out and back over to the DC and up to the corner. Overcast and smelled of rain but no luck. Pretty humid... ok very humid. Over all the legs felt pretty good for a Monday. Both hammies are super sore so I'll have to spend some time on the sawhorse. But quads feel much better than on Saturday.

Thoughts- I think I have the opposite of the rainy day blues. More like I wish it would rain so so so bad. It's so dry and we haven't had any real rain since... I don't know when. wouldlovemesomerain

Also I hate. I mean I HATE fireworks. It seems since the 4th of July they've been going off here and there. Such a stupid waste of money... for anyone. FACT. Plus in these crazy dry conditions I don't know why it's even allowed. It's not if but when a big fire will start from them. In fact I think that big one up above Hobble Creek was started by teens this weekend. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

And last I'm just sorry, sad, and puzzled at the events of the weekend here in STG. Guess in some ways we never really know why things happen. My heart goes out to the Lusk family in loosing thier wife and mom. But I don't know them. I also hope the best for Dave and Ally and their family. As Ally was there. Running with Terri. Had to hold her friend and neighbor as she basically died. So tragic. It's just bouncing around in my brain over and over. Everyone be safer out there.... last summer it was Braydon on the bike. Now Terri out running. This hits home... hard.

144lbs after the run this morning. 79 F at the start and finish of the run.

7 more miles tonight. It was overcast and only 97 F so I decided to take advantage of the cold front:). Legs felt like junk though. Heavy and slow. Glad I didn't have a watch because it would have been painful to watch it.

DC loop. Nothing special today. Legs were so heavy last night that I had no plans to do the tempo today... but forgot to tell Loggie. Oops. Sorry ):

Legs were again pretty heavy and slow. I didn't get a chance to work over the hammies on the sawhorse yesterday and now even that right hammy (which really never hurts) is knotted up. So working that out is a must today.  76F when I left at 7:20 a.m.

7 miles this afternoon. It said it was only 100f. I decided running was doable. Headed out and the first couple felt fine. But it was FULL sun. And as I pushed through every mile... I slowly started to tank. BAD. Felt super sick in the end. Cramping, bad stomach, dizzy, ect. This is the kind of afternoon run I've tried to avoid. They do more damage than good. I'll feel the effects for days.

Struggled to sleep at all last night. Even though I was dead, trashed, or whatever you want to call it. Just felt like I'd crossed the "line" on the run yesterday afternoon and now I was paying the piper. So when the alarm went off this morning I wanted soooo bad to bag it. Rest. Recover. Drink. Drink. And whatever else I could do to get something back. But I couldn't... just made myself get out. Pushed out a run. It felt slow and painful. The watch said it was a 7:07 avg but it felt WAY slower than that. I need some mojo back. #inafunk

144lbs

Decided to join Stephen and the club over at the DC since I didn't tempo on Tuesday.  Left the house at 5 a.m and it was 81F and muggysih. Warmed up over to the DC and did a little more with the club after that for a total of 5.5 miles warm up.

5 mile tempo basically around the Mayors loop from the DC up to river road and around. I felt fantastic for .25 and then... Reality set in and I felt normal tempo shiz. My quads are cramping up sooooo fast lately. They just feel horrible/ flat/ dead WAY too fast into workouts. Guess I'll blame it on the heat. IDK.  Ended up finishing the 5 miles at 5:36 avg. Nothing great. But happy to push something out.

4.3 mile cool down after. really started to feel weak, dizzy and super sour stomach on the way back. It's been a week since DesNews half and my stomach still wont settle. Maybe I'm pregnant... crazier things have happened?

PM. 3.5 on the treadmill

DC loop extended on inner trail and Secret st. Had just a little rain last night at about 9:30p.m. I was hoping it would cool things off. But was sad to see 79 F at 5 a.m. However there was a breezy and it didn't feel too bad out. Fetl much more comfy than Thursday. Pace was EZ. Stomach is up and down so much. Anywho got it in. TGIF

Ran from up by Veyo down through Gunlock and into Ivin's with the club. The good news was it was raining up at the start. Felt soo good. Everyone was complaining that the rain sucked and it was cold and that this was "crazy" to be out running...  for some reason it just bugged me. It's like what do you want? 85 F, hot and muggy. You get that kind of reaction with club members. Not to be mean but they don't appreciate "good" days like members of the Circle. Steve and Haydo were there and it helped settle me down as we took off and left the group to have them there. Anyways long rant. But I was pissy. On little sleep. Up at 3:40 and just wasn't in the mood.

So the first 7-10 miles we had a really nice rain to run in. Stephen kept pushing the pace. Fast and hard early. I knew I was gonna struggle early on as the warm up miles felt hard and my legs were just junk. After hitting mile 10 I got my drink and Gu. Kind of thought about trying some kind of workout. But I just could NOT get my legs going. 6 min pace felt like I was running 100's on the track. I tried for 3-4 miles to get some turnover and only hit like 6:02 on thos miles. So after that I bagged it. By 16.5 I wondered if I could even finish the run and wished I'd have had Hayden come back in his truck and pick me up after he got done. But I just kept plugging a long and finally finished. 6:24 avg for the run.

Need to mix it up or something. Gonna try and have a recovery/fix it week next week. Whatever I'm doing it's not working. Hopefully I can get on the bike or at least the spinner a few times because I'm not happy with how running is going right now.