Clyde's Comeback!

12.2 mile run this morning around the overpass. I was up fairly early and it was still hot out. There was some cloud cover last night and it was dry and hot out as I ran in the dark this morning. My legs were fairly heavy and sore this morning from the hard run on Saturday, but that was to be expected. Hopefully with a couple at easy pace I'll be able to shake them all out. 

(New Landreth-65.4) 

 6 easy miles tonight. Olive Garden was sitting way heavy in the tummy. I also saw a family of raccoons right by the golf course. 

(Blue Stratus 459.4) 

12.3 miles this morning. Up to overpass but kind of did an out and back instead of the regular loop. My legs have some serious delayed soreness from last Saturday. Monday they felt worse than Sunday, Monday night was worse than that morning and Tuesday morning was the worst so far. The calves are rock hard. I tried the stick on them last night and it hurt just to touch them, let alone to actually roll them out. Anyways looking forward to when things feel better. 

(Landreth- 389) 

2 mile run tonight. I thought the schedule said to do 12 this morning and 8 tonight so this morning I did 12 and then looked at it during lunch and saw that it was (10 morning and 4 evening) oops. So I just did a pathetic 2 miles tonight. It was kind of good because now the delayed soreness has moved up to the quads and it's for real. Ouch!

(Blue Cumulus- 480) 

16 mile big workout this morning. 5 mile warm up, 7 miles at MP, 4 miles cool down. We met up early and it was way dark out on the trail. At times we all were stumbling around because of unseen bumps and dips on the river trail. I asked the guys if we could do a 5 mile warm up instead of a 5 mile cool down. I wanted to make sure I was really warmed up this morning. The legs have been extra heavy and tight this week from last weeks workout and so I was a little apprehensive coming into todays speed stuff.  

7 miles at MP was interesting. I went out way fast hitting 5:30's (5:26, 5:34) on the first two miles and just trying to keep Logan in view. Then I realize I was going too fast for the workout and tried to relax and run to pace and did so all but the 6th mile. There I really struggled and hit a 5:55 but then Dave came up and got me going again and was able to avg 5:43 pace for the 7 miles or 7 miles in 40:04. My quads got really tight and heavy when we were by the DC- which makes sense that the 6th mile was so slow. Then I was able to work though it a little and bring the last mile back down to pace.

Nice cool down with the guys as the sun was starting to come up. I really enjoy running with the guys early in the morning. It gives us time to talk about life and stuff. Good workout overall. Really glad it's over.

(White Cumulus- 491.1) 

5.3 miles up the Middleton trail to the power line and then over just a tad. It's a good thing that tonight's miles were scheduled to be very easy because thats all the effort I wanted to give. Nice to be out on the trail. The construction guys have made a mess of things right here at the entrance... hopefully they don't keep going out.

(Red Stratus- 490.5)  

12.3 mile run this morning. Same run as Tuesday. I felt like poo today. Most of the time I'm sore and stiff for the first 3 miles or so and then finally get warmed up. Today I never crossed the line- I was stiff and slow the whole time. Getting through the rest of today and this week will be a challenge. 

(New Landreth- 77.7) 

7.5 mile run up around one of my many, many GS loops. Right smack in the middle of the heat. When I left it was 108 and when I got home it was 110... I just wanted to get it over with and get as long as recovery as possible before tomorrow mornings 18 miles. This run was pretty good considering the heat. I took some water and did the wet hat and tank top thing. Thats the last afternoon run for the week and it feels soo good to have it over with. I'm getting so sick of the heat- it's starting to drive me crazy!

(Blue Stratus- 466.9) 

17.5 mile run this morning. Out into the heart of Washington Fields and back. Saw James H. out with his headlamp running in the dark. I knew it was one of the Holt's but couldn't tell which one until I was right by him. I didn't set the alarm this morning because I wasn't going to go for sure. The legs were feeling trashed and so I went to bed and left it up to chance if I got up or not. If I got up before the sun came up I'd go running- if I didn't then maybe just a sort little run and call it a rest day- well I woke up at 4 a.m and could not go back to sleep. So I went out for this longer run. It ended up being pretty good trip. I just kept the pace "relaxi taxi" and pushed through it. I saw a heard of 10+ deer out in the fields. Most of them were babies which is cool. My stomach was really on edge this morning from the Ihop last night (Colorado Omlete with bacon, shredded beef, cheese, peppers, salsa... and 3 apple crisp buttermilk pancakes). After having the stomach drama for much of the run I had to ask myself:

Clyde- Why doest thou this? "I know not". Whilst thou ever learn? "The temptation is strong and makest me weak in the flesh". If thou wilt continue to be stalwart in your labors thou may reap a small reward!

Also wore the heart rate. I did last night for the first time in over a year. Yesterday afternoons run in the heat I had an avg of 147 bpm. This morning I put it on and while sitting on the couch before the run I had 39 bpm and if I would have laid down I could have dropped it to 38 or 37. The avg bpm on the run this morning was 128.  

(Black Stratus- 100.5) 

6.5 miles on the bike today = 1.6 miles of easy running.  

16.5 miles this morning as part of a Big Workout. We met up early with a bunch of people to ride up the course. Thanks for driving again Mike! Dave, Logan and I were going to do this workout: 4 mile warm up, 10x2 min @ 5:30 pace w/ 1min recovery, 3 mile Tinman tempo and then the rest at cool down (ended up being 3.5 miles). 

It was cool, and very dark up were we started. There were falling stars everywhere and I'm sorry to admit that I didn't keep a roadkill count this week. The 4 mile warm up went by super fast as it always dose when there are hard miles to follow. Then we started the 10x2 min section.  I didn't start and stop and restart the watch during each of these legs however we were rolling. With some (1 min recoveries) mixed in we still hit mile splits of 5:15, 5:09, 5:29, 5:31 and so on. I'm guessing that the 5:30 pace effort turned into 4:20-4:40 pace through the downhill. Going into this workout I thought "this should be easy- it's not a big deal". Wow! It was a workout. We kept it more true on the Tinman tempo and then very slow on the cool down as we licked our wounds back to the park. 

Good workout to have in the bank. I was pretty sore going in and very sore coming out so now it's time to try and get recovered before a good thrashing on Monday.

(SS- 202)