Clyde's Comeback!

46 mile ride. A little of everything today. Out to Coral then up around the Crusher loop. Back up the "Everest" trail by Coral. Then up over the freeway around Green Springs, down through town right down the Blvd and Bluff. Then finally back across riverside all the way to the fields and back around home. Didn't have a plan when I got on the bike and the ride shows. Just making stuff up as I went. Still a pretty solid ride with lots of rollers. 21.1 mph avg.

12 mile run after the ride. 2.5 on the treadmill waiting for Mik'L. Then finished up on the B-hills loop, secret street and around LV. Pretty solid effort. Hip wasn't comfortable but didn't hurt enough to ruin the run.

67.6 mile ride early. Big full loop of the valley. Similar to yesterdays ride but extended out to southern parkway and airport after coming across town. Lots of elevation change. No seriously steep climbs but no real flat either. 3,560 ft of elevation gain throughout. Kept the motor humming all morning and clocked a pretty good ride. My headlight wasn't fully charged and it went out after only 17 miles. So things got really dicey after that. Avoided a few crashes and cops. Note to self: charge it before every ride! Loving the cooler mornings. Low of 64 F. And I even saw the old running coach from the south side with his team. Good luck to both of the coaches from the circle and their teams in the meet today.

10.2 mile run. Got home and Mik'L said she was just staying in for her workout today. So I basically got to head right out. Got about 3.5 miles into the run and just started bonking... didn't eat a very good dinner last night and didn't take very many calories on the ride. So the remaining miles were really hard. Just didn't have much to give. Thought about cutting it short several places but the fool in me just did the same old loop. Hip felt pretty good though:)

Big boys run today at my house. I warmed up with 2 miles then joined the guys for our 10.2 mile DC loop. Then hit 3 more after. 63 F this morning. I'm loving it. Honestly it could stay like this all year. 100-103 F during the day isn't too bad and having cooler mornings really helps with training. Hip really hurt today...  like bad. Lately it's ok or just super painful. Laboring through hard runs is taking it's toll. Not sure how much longer I can keep it up. Somehow get through STG marathon and hope it goes ok all things considered. Then it might be time for something else?

46.2 mile ride. Out to airport back around Bloomington and the fields with one more mini loop around Summit and Stone Cliff. Just took it pretty EZ. Didn't have much in the legs to push if I'd wanted to. Butt is sore AGAIN and hurt pretty bad for the first 10 miles but by the end it wasn't bothering me. Took a shot at the KOM on the Rustic Dragstrip (twice) and edged out the neighborhood sharks for now to take the crown. 

7.6 mile run on the treadmill after. Mik'L had a meeting early so I had to stay in and go shorter. I'll try to get out for a double today to get caught up on mileage and to take the pressure off tomorrow so I can hit the goals for the week. Hip didn't bother too much but that's the only blessing of the treadmill- it seems to be a little more gentle on things than out on the street. Sad though as it was 62 F this morning and I really was loving it on the bike. 

5 more miles on the treadmill this afternoon. It felt like death to get on the sucker and get it done but one song rolled to another and finally it was over.

45.1 mile ride. Bob and I were joined by Ty Newman. With three strong this ride turned into a hammer fest. I'd planned on just taking it ez today in prep for my long ride tomorrow. Wasn't the case. 22.1 mph avg for the ride. Pretty good push and fun to "group' up and hit a solid ride. 

10.2 mile run after. I'm home a lone for the weekend so I was able to get right out on the run. I took a GU at the end of the ride (which I normally don't do) and it seemed to really help out on the run. Hip was a little tender early on but the legs wanted to turn. Ended with a 6:37 avg. Overall a super solid workout with both the ride and run. Happy to see some good results coming around. Now to nap all day:) or do whatever one does when your home alone. Recover and try to get this long ride in my rear view tomorrow. 

100.4 mile bike ride today. Up at 2:30 a.m... and it took 50 min's to get out the door. I headed out to the airport and had planned to log 25-30 miles before joining a group at the DC. Hit that section perfect for time. Mixed extra bottles and had them sitting on the driveway so when I got home from the airport loop I could switch them out and head to the DC. It was SUPER hot today. I don't know what happened to our cool mornings but it was around 15 degrees warmer than the mornings of the first part of the week. 85 F when I left the house today. 

Met the group and got a flat in the 2 miles between the DC and River Road. Ugh! Stopped to fix it and about 5 guys waited while up at River Road about 13 others rolled on. We fixed it pretty fast all things considered and then hammered it up and caught the others by the bottom of the costco hill. They must have waited a while before rolling off. I jumped up front and pulled out to the top of the Coral Canyon hill. There we waited for everyone to re join. I thought it'd be a long day if this kept up. So we rolled off the hill and up the the light at the end of Telegraph and there was only about 5-6 guys with me. They slowed and I said lets keep going. I told them I'd slow down and we could hit the Quail\Leeds\Torquerville\Hurricane\Sandhollow loop together. They agreed and we dropped off the hill above the fair grounds. Then disaster struck. There were some construction barrels up just off the rumble strip and (it was dark) they came out of no where. 4 of us managed to slip by but I heard a loud "slam". One of the 2 guys in the back didn't see it in time and hit it going about 35 mph. It was Dr. Clark. He was on the ground pretty jacked up. Bike was trashed too. Everyone got there and a cop just happened to be coming by. Some girls called his wife and she came out to get him. He ended up with a lot of road rash and a separated AC join in the left shoulder- just like mine:). 

It totally sucked and killed the hype of the BIG group ride. I finally rolled out with one other guy- Jace (who hasn't been riding at all but is only 23). I told him to ride my wheel all day just as long as he stayed with me in case I got another flat and needed his extra tube and stuff. So I pulled him the rest of the ride until we got back to that very same hill and I finally dropped him coming up the hill.

From there I just messed around out in LV to get to 100 miles for the  day. I had planned on maybe doing like 120-140 but we spent a lot of time with my flat and the waiting for the group and then the wreck.

So anyways I was able to finally get 300+ (305.5) miles in on the bike and 60 miles of running in. I've wanted to hit this all summer but it just hasn't worked out. Glad to cross it off the list. Ended the ride on a pretty hard loop with a 20.5 mph avg. Not too shabby on that loop with no drafting all day.