Clyde's Comeback!

2:40:00 on the trainer today. It was raining early and then Mik'L went to work. So I had to stay indoors. Wasn't as bad as one might have guessed it'd be. Watched a few Walking Dead episodes and finished off season 2.

No running until I feel like this hip wont kill. I'm just sick of living in pain.

1:50:00- 0n the trainer... agian. I had the alarm set for 4 am. I woke at 3:30 and thought I'd just get out and go. Went outside to check the weather and as I walked onto the back patio rain started to fall. Within a few min's it was a pounding rain. So riding outside was out. Good thing I bought the trainer last week. Watched a DVD that came with the trainer and did the "workout/ race". It was killer- I was sweating.

Big boy's run here from my cul de sac. Looped Coyote once then did the B-hills loop, then one more lap around Coyote. Cooler this morning but super humid. The other guys were all dripping wet... shorts and all. I was sweaty but shorts were dry. Guess I'm different.

Took it EZ. This was my first run since the end of last week. Hip was tight but didn't scream pain like it was last week. I'll continue to take it EZ on the running side until after Lotoja.

20 min's after the run on the Cycleops trainer. I don't usually bike at all on Wednesdays after the run but wanted to try and loosen up the hip a little more. Plus I'm not sure what the weather is gonna do the rest of the week or when or where I'll get to actually ride. To start off the week I only needed like 225 biking miles to hit 1000 for the month. I know it's not a big deal but on a personal level I'd be a nice benchmark to cross. I was close last month (975) or so and didn't realize it.

With the running and biking volume combined this summer it has been a lot of work. I'm excited for things to be wrapping up and to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Since June 1st I've tried to be at least 200 miles of cycling and around 60 miles of running. Had a couple below and a couple above and basically met my avg goal. In Mid July I didn't think I'd make it day after day, week after week. But I'm basically at the taper for Lotoja and then only a few weeks after than will the the marathon. So I'll give myself a pat on the back and a sigh of relief.  Still worried about the hip but I'm not going to stress anymore until after this biking thing is over.

62.1 mile ride this morning. I woke up early and planned out this great ride in my head. It'd been since last Saturday that I actually road outside. Left the house at 4:30 a.m and headed down the raod. Roughly 2.5 miles into my ride I got stuck in one gear and couldn't shift out. My bike has electric shifting which is seriously awesome... unless you forget to charge the battery. Oops. So for the next 59 miles I road a big loop 4x through the Washington fields around Little Valley and back up River road to Riverside then back to the fields. It was a flat loop that I could manage in one gear. Roughtly about 14 miles per loop. Then a shorter StoneCliff loop at the end. Lucky for me I ended up being in a gear that I could push on the uphill and got me going fast enough on the flats. On the downhill I was spinning out but what do you do?

Still ended up hammering it for what it was worth. 22.1 mph avg. I was dripping wet with sweat. Running the motor at a super high RPM for a little under 3 hours. Kind of fun. I didn't really have a choice. It was ride like that or bag the entire morning.

60 min's on the elliptical after the run. Started to bonk because I fueled like crap all morning.

Didn't get anything done this morning. The body needed sleep much more than a workout.

25.4 mile ride out to the airport and back this afternoon. 95 F and very windy made this ride special. 20.2 mph avg and that was working like a dawg.
 

53.7 mile ride. Road out out and back up Utah Hiil. I enjoyed the workout last week and thought it'd be good to hit it as a last chance workout before lotoja. Was able to meet up with Ed and Brandon plus one more of thier buddies out in Santa Clara. It was nice to ride with a bigger group that was able to push the pace.

I told them that from Kayenta up to the summit I was going to ride it semi hard and that I'd wait at the summit to rejoin. So that's what happened. I was able to get into a good flow and worked the climb pretty good.

Then the four of us grouped up on the downside and burned that back into Ivins. Pretty good ride overall. Nice way to end the week and month. Ended Aug with 1,049 riding miles. Kind of fun to go over 1,000 for the first time.
Running sucked though. But it was nice to give the hip some time off this week and hopefully in the long run it'll help out....