Clyde's Comeback!

Did the Stone Cliff loop but extended down to the DC and around Flying J and the Knolls. Avg pace for the run was 7:11. I had a new pair of shoes and they really felt good so that was the good news... the bad news was that the hammy was a little achy. So I guess I'm not totally out of the woods with that- I never thought I was but kind of hoped or dreamed I'd be...  Hope to get a good week in even though there is much planned. 

Wow I burned some calories this morning. Up at 4:30 to go out and ride Goosberry Mesa on the mt. bike. No one brought a garmin so distance wasn't measured but we did a solid 2 hours of riding before having to get home. Then once I got home I went out for a run at around 9:40 a.m and it was hotter than I like it. The worst part however was I was dead... legs were spent and I was so hungry becasuse I hadn't refueled from the ride. I actually thought about eating a trail nut bar that was ran over off the side of the road... but I didn't have anything to wash it down with. Anyways a good morning all done by 10:30. 

Run was in 59:30

Bike ride was in 2 hours.... count as 4 miles... 1 mile per half hour.

A Bigish workout... well I guess this is the biggest workout I've had for months. We met up at 4 a.m at Mike's to run up Snow Canyon and back down the course and aroundto his house. It was 8.4 up to the top and that is a very good, steep climb. Then I did 8 miles of tempo down to the bottom and around the parkway. Then 1.7 miles of cool down back. It was a nice morning but still pretty toasty as we made our way up the climb. I saw around 15 falling stars in the dark sky and that was cool. At the top I took a GU and started the tempo to see how my body would hold up. Hit the first mile in 5:47 with Steve right there at my side then I stopped looking at the garmin and just focused on smooth form. Steve dropped and I ran on down hitting the 8 miles down past Paradise Canyon at an avg of 5:44 min mile pace. Not great by any means considering last year I did basically the same loop and hit the fast miles at an avg of 5:10-5:15 pace. But on the flipside I haven't ran anything fast for months now and it was good to see I could still hold something together. In the end I still felt good and was running just as strong as when I started. So we'll see where I can get back too in the months to come.

Good workout and glad to have gotten out and push things a little. Thanks Mike for putting the run together and for all your work in getting water drops out all over the place.  

Club run tonight. We did the same loop around the hill over by the river and came out Washington Dam road. My quads were pretty trashed from yesterday. I haven't done any downhill all year and then did that workout on the course yesterday and BANG today there was a price to pay. So the nice slow pace the first 5 miles or so was nice. Then Steven was feeling frisky and picked up the pace. My ego wouldn't let me let him go so I went along for the ride. Anyways in the end the legs felt o.k but I was hot and thirsty. 

Did the fields loop. I was really dragging it around for the first 3 or so until I was warmed up. Then things felt a little smoother. The hammy kind of hurt on the 8th mile but in the end wasn't bothering me. Gonna go play golf in Cedar today if all goes as planned. 

Started out running over to the Knolls park this morning from the house and took the long way but that was still only 1.3 miles. Then watched the cross country races and ran around .5 back and forth around the course watching the races and stuff. That was a lot of fun. Dave and Logan have a cool course over there and it makes for a fun meet. 

Then after things were over I went out up the airport road and looped around the fields back home. It was hot by now and the last three miles or so kind of sucked.