Clyde's Comeback!

My wife and I did two little walks today around the area. Both added up to around 2.5 miles. It hurt!

Last year on the Monday after I ran 2.5 miles. Not happening today. I'm just trashed. The lower half of my body needs a transplant. Everything hurts pretty bad. I'm not in a hurry to get back to running. I may get some miles in later in the week but I've been planning on just letting things rest and heal.

Here is my rundown of food and stuff for Friday and Saturday.

Friday morning Paul and I got up and drove the course and did a three mile run.

I ate a bananna before leaving

Then a powerade after the run in the car on the way back

For breakfast at home I had a bowl of Granola with Soy Milk

Went to the Expo at noon and tryed a few sample bars and such

Lunch at Samari 21 at 1 p.m. Same thing as last year. Chicken noodle bowl, some salad, tofo soup, and California roll sushi. With water to drink.

Dinner was the pasta party. I had a pretty good size plate of noodles with just a little meat sauce and the rest just plain sauce.

Also a couple slices of bread and snacked on vegies.

1 pudding cup too

Saturday morning- checked my weight and was 154 in the morning. A couple pounds bigger than I'd planned to be but nothing too crazy. It was all the Carb loading.

Up at 3:40 and ate bowl of granola with Soy milk

Mixed a bottle of cytomax with some extra carbo powder added

At the bus at five and ate a bananna and drank the Cytomax drink on the way up

Cytomax drinks and GU's at miles 7,11,19

This isn't as detailed as last years but it seemed to work out pretty good.

My legs played a trick on me today. I got up and still felt trashed and then a couple hours later I felt really good. So I went out to do a short little run. Oh man what did I do? It was so painful. Not like something was injured painful, more like baseball bat to the legs until they are black and blue, but functional painful. I'm sure this is the worst I've ever been after a race. But it's kind of fun in a way. Because I'm not trying to rush back into things for any reason, and I know that I just ran to this date the best race of my life. So it's way worth the pain.

I've been going to take our little dog Zoe out running and thought now's a perfect time with me running slow with the post marathon issues. So I got her all ready and we hit the street. She started out doing very good and I had planned on doing a 3 mile run with her. Well just before the half mile mark she was showing signs of or weakness. So I decieded we'd just do an out and back mile. By the time we turned around and headed home her run had turned into a fast walk with her toung hanging to the ground.

I learned two things on that run. 1. was that shorter runs will work better for her and that she may never be a good running budy (legs are very short). 2. I found out on that run that I was feeling a lot better than I thought I was. So after bringing Zoe back home I went back out for the five mile loop. It felt pretty good until the last half mile or so I got a little sore. Overall I'm slowly getting it back.

I did the powerline/GS loop today. I went out at around 4 p.m. and had to hurry because we had things going on tonight. So my pace was as fast or faster then any other time I've ran that loop over the summer in normal training. By the time I finished it proved to have been a little more than I was ready for. I felt very tierd at the end and the rest of the night. My body is just drained. I'm still fighting off getting a cold that could come any day or maybe I can fight it off for good. In any case today wasn't good for me on not getting sick. Anyways yoiu live and learn. I'll take it a little easier Friday and maybe get a good run in on Saturday with the club.

Didn't go out today. My cold started getting worse so I just took a hot bath and went to bed before we had to go to a wedding reception in the evening.

Felt kind of better than last night so I just got ready and went out. Really enjoyed the run until around 7.5 and then my calves got really tight. By then end of the run they were hard as a rock. Now hours later I am limping around like I was last week after the marathon. So I guess I'm not recovered yet. As soon as I get brave enough I'll use "The Stick" and try rolling my calves a little, but it's going to hurt.