Clyde's Comeback!

Met up at my house with Mike and Paul (Paul from my neighborhood and who needs to join the blog). Anyways we did a portion of the Sunriver loop we did a couple weeks ago. We just took it easy and chit chatted the whole run but I still ended with a 7:30 avg so not too bad. I had the usual Monday morning issues and had to do a potty stop but other than that felt really good. We ran into Logan and his team and it was fun to see that cat out running again. 

Headed out to do the Flying J loop and about 3 miles into it I ran into Ruth. So I joined her and extended my loop down into Bloomington and back up the trail into BH then back home. I was kind of slow to get going and it was nice to run into her to help keep the pace honest. By the time I got home I felt really dehydrated and checked my weight... 154. Thats pretty low for me now-a-days. Even when I'm in really good marathon shape I like to be 152 the morning before a big race. So not too far off in a roundabout way. I still need to do a lot more core work and then someday slowly start to work some faster miles into my diet. But not just yet. I've been working with a new foam roller and so far the hammy is feeling no pain... I won't say good because I still feel like if I started to hammer my training that it could hurt again, but for now it's good enough to keep slowly increasing the miles. 

4 quick miles on the treadmill. Slept in and it was too hot to go out. I'll catch a few more this evening with my uncle. 

Did a run this evening with my uncle Don. He's just getting into it and wanted to go out and ask some questions and have me see how he was doing. So we ran over to the Knolls park and then did laps. First mile was in 8:40 and he normally only runs 10 min pace so we kind of got him out too fast. Once at the park I put on the 5 fingers and ran in them the rest of the time and back to the house. It was a nice run and a good way to end the day.  

Club run tonight. It was around five to ten degrees cooler this evening than the norm and that was grand. We did some trail over behind Mesa Shadows that goes by the river and then back around to the Dam road. I liked the run! Pace was slow and that was good too. Steve's shorts were really short and he didn't have a shirt on either... that part wasn't so good. 

It was nice and cool or cooler this morning. I didn't go out until about 7:30 and the air still felt great. Smile! I ran the Stone Cliff loop and finished through Bloomington Hills. I tried to just relax and run efficient, smooth and with very low impact. So the effort felt like I would have been going slow but usually when I run this way my times are faster.... today was no different. I finished with just over a 7 min avg for the run. Not like it was tempo pace or anything but still a quick clip for a casual training run. Feeling good so far this week and hope to find time tomorrow for a longer run. 

Really good 18 mile run this morning. Out into the fields to the bridge then over to the Costco road down to the river trail and to the DC. Then around Flying J and back around the Knolls to the house. Basically a net flat course. There is a really good hill you climb by Flying J and some 1% downhill but it is really close to as flat as it gets in STG. I hit the first mile in like 8:20 and then cruised around 7:15 pace for a while hitting the first 8 miles in around 58 mins. Then on the last 10 I dropped the pace to around 6:30 to hit an avg of 7:00 min pace straight up for the run. It felt good to hit somewhat of a real workout. In the end I had plenty left in the tank and was feeling good. Other than the hammy was a touch sore but nothing like it was a few months ago. 

After I got home I ran back over to the park and back pushing Myler for a cool down. It was our Stake 5k race and I wanted to go over and see everyone start. I had no intentions of running it although about 10 people tried to get me to do it. Now to relax and enjoy this cooler weather it was really nice out this morning.