Clyde's Comeback!

50 min's on the elliptical. Worked on keeping the legs from getting stiff. They seems pretty good today but sitting around all day would have been bad.

Semi longish run with the Circle. Logan tried to ruin it for everyone by being weird. I don't know what his deal is.;) Nonetheless it was a special morning running down our home marathon course. We haven't been on it all summer and it's past time. Just took it EZ all morning. The main focus was to just get in the downhill running. We started in Veyo and ended at the church on Bluff. It was dark for at least 10 mile of the run. None of us had headlamps (we never do). There was construction barrels everywhere and LOTS of northbound traffic. Like more than I can ever remember. About a mile atop Veyo hill I was thinking "one of us is gonna run into one of these barrels".  Because it's dark... and we are dodging cars. Well about 2 steps later I slammed into on. Full stride. No heads up. Faceplant. Both hands ended up bloody. I used a four letter word. And the guys laughed. Hard. #effingAholes ;) Other than messing up my only two hands pretty good. I'm fine. So don't worry. Picked myself up and got back on.

Finished the run at a 6:45 avg. Laxi Taxi morning. Glad to get the run in.
 

DC loop. Felt like this run took hours. At mile 6 I felt like I'd been running all day. No watch so I don't know for sure the details. But it was slow. Legs felt stiff and much more lazy than yesterday. Really wish I would have gotten a short afternoon run in yesterday. It would have helped.

145.5 lbs

4.5 treadmill miles tonight.

DC again. The morning was great for a run. Legs were not. Quads are pretty tight and soreish. Slow. If theres not a big difference by this afternoon I'll bag the workout tomorrow morning too.

6.8 miles on the treadmill this afternoon.

Tempo Tuesday on Thursday

Had a pretty good one today. Temps was 69 F at 4:50 when we left and continued to drop throughout the run. This helps tons!!! Wamed up out to Stucki and kept having stomach cramps. Finally out there I got in a good pre tempo #2 stop.

We got going and it was fast from the first mile. Logan kept the foot on the gas pushing me through miles 1,2,3 and into 4. I was really happy how I ran today following the race on Saturday and then the run down the course on Monday. Miles 5,6 are always hard on Mesquito and Riverside. I also couldn't see the guys any more and wondered if they'd stopped. So I kind of slowed thinking maybe I should turn around. But decided to just keep going. Then I wanted to try and get it going faster on the trail on miles 7,8. Didn't really do so on 7. Don't know why as I felt pretty good still but mentally just lost focus. Then on the last mile Steven came running up the trail and as I passed by him he flipped and started chasing me. I didn't know it was him and thought it was Dave or Logan comming back to me. So that helped me get the pace back.

Ended with a 5:34 avg for the 8 mile tempo. Not too shabby on this course. Staying out on Riverside is tough.

5:27, 5:21, 5:20, 5:33, 5:46, 5:46, 5:49, 5:34

5 miles on the treadmill this afternoon while the nanny was here. First day... That was pretty much amazing.

DC loop in the dark. Solo. A storm kind of circled me but I actually never got any rain on me. But the streets were wet here and there. Dry at the house when I left and wet when I got home.

The blue Pegasus shoes have been awesome. But today they started to feel like they are on the way out. I've loved the new Pegasus though.

146 lbs was a little heavier today. 144lbs yesterday. But I drank a GIANT smoothie before bed and I'm guessing it's mostly water weight.

Alarm set for 3:30... but I have this sick and twisted thing in my life that makes me wake up one hour before any alarm. So at 2:30 a.m I got up went to the restroom and was... up. FML

Long run down the marathon course. Second longish run down it in 5 days. I kind of wanted to do a 4 mile, 8 mile, 4 mile tempo workout today. But after only about 3 miles I decided to bag it and just go a little longer. Just wasn't feeling it today. At all. Had some mexican food last night. Large combo plate... made for 5+ star morning. Got to clean up the diet next week for sure.

Anyways Aaron and Steve basically took off right out of the car. I thought even if I do run hard today I'll warm up first. But after 8.9 miles and our water bottle stop I wasn't into it. So Logan headed out to get a progression run in and I just made my way down the course. Fastest mile of the day was 5:56. Once I got to Bluff St. I was basically at mile 17 and I took a left up over Red Hills PKWY and followed the Ironman course to it's turn around. Then I dropped down around Dixie St and back up around the park to extend it to 23.25 miles for the run. Hit a 6:30 avg today. Nothing fast... but kept it honest and got some good miles on the legs to finish off a solid week since the half last Saturday.

146 lbs after. Wish it would have at least gave me one more pound off... Feeling too heavy heading into the weekend.