Clyde's Comeback!

Glad to just be home tonight after a long weekend. I love just being at home with the family (me, Mik'L and our little dogs + our little baby on the way). 

I'm looking forward to a better week. Maybe not too much though. I'll shoot for 65-75 miles. I see no real reason to go much more than that without a race coming up to focus on. I'll try and shed a few of the pounds I put on over the weekend.

Mik'L is heading to PHX for the weekend and some of next week to work with her dad.... and now I'm coming along. However not like most times where I just come along and eat room service and lay by the pool. This time my trip down there will be for a purpose. I have to go to the dentist!!! I had an x-ray and I have 5 regular cavities and 2 others that most likely need root canal's- so if your counting thats 7 teeth that need to be fixed. Have mercy! I do brush twice a day just so you know. But I haven't been to the dentist for over 6 years and I think that all the gatorade I drink may be one of the causes. Lots of sugar. 

Here is an example of my day when I'm training hard- like through the summer. I'll brush right before bed and then sleep until 5 am or whenever the run is. Then up and I'll drink gatorade right out of bed and then on a lot of occasions I'll be out running for 2 hours or so with that sugar just sitting on the poor teeth. Then I'll come home and drink some more and mess a round with whatever for like another hour and then go shower and brush. Then once I'm out of the shower I spend the rest of the day drinking gatorade trying to get hydrated (I do drink water but when it's really hot water just won't cut it). Then out for the second run sometime late afternoonish. Then dinner, TV, blog, ebay... and finally brush again before bed.

Anyways I guess I just need to take better care of these babies. The only good news is my uncle is a dentist (in PHX) and that helps the pocket book.  

7.6 miles this morning up around GS. Other than my hamstring nothing really hurt which was nice. However I was basically stumbling around because my form was so bad. I felt like a big lurp. But that is to be expected considering it's Monday and I didn't run on Saturday so I'm that much more out of it. 

(New Cumulus- 15.1) 

7.5 miles up to GS and home on the trail. It was actually too hot out this afternoon. That and the fact that I had two too many potty stops... The good news is I was sweating to the oldies in the sun. I also saw one of the biggest desert tortoise's I've ever come across on a run. Not the biggest (that one was massive) but the second largest green guy. He hissed at me as I ran by. The littler ones are kind of cute to see but these big ones are kind of scary looking. Like a crocodile or something prehistoric.

Adrenaline- 114  

8 mile morning run around the water tank and through the industrial park. It was kind of smokey out this morning and was making me sick for about half the run then the sickness just went away. What a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

8.5 miles up the trail and round GS. No turtles today. Logan it's true! Really, really warm out for this time of year. For some reason I'm feeling really good and finally coming around. I'm still not going to do any speed work for a while but I'm just going to do the miles that feel good.  

12 mile run this morning up around the overpass. Nice and even effort throughout the run- I never pushed the pace but I never relaxed to coast either. I'm still riding a little heavy so I'd like to drop a few pounds. I had Mik'L walk/ kneel on my hamstring the other night and it really loosened it up. Maybe I should have been doing that all summer. 

 I planned on getting back out this afternoon but my stomach got into a train wreck with Cafe Rio and then there was no way. I didn't even think about it the rest of the day. I think I'm done eating there for a while.  

8.6 mile run up into GS and then up the trail to the power line directly north of the houses. Then I took that back over to the regular trail back home. The hammy was a little more tight today than it was yesterday so I'll have to get Mik'L to kneel on it again. Weight is still there... I guess it will take a couple weeks. 

8.5 mile run this evening with the club. We met at the store and ran up the Chucawalla trail that drops off and loops around Entrada. It was a beautiful evening and the run was good too. The last little section in the wash was more "commando" than I remembered it. Nice to get out with the guys and run with our shirts off the last week in October.  

9.5 mile run this morning. Same loop as yesterday only I did it in revers and add the Middleton extension. Kind of overcast this morning and I actually caught a few rain drops so hopefully it will rain later today- the trails could us it. My hammy was just about as sore as ever today. I'm beginning to think I'm injured. I mean I could cram all the easy miles in I wanted but there is no way I could start doing any speed. On top of that I don't want to try another race until I can get a handle on it. It's bugged me all year long and that's just about enough. So that is mission number one for the rest of 2008- get the hamstring pain to leave. 

5.6 mile loop up into GS. I felt pretty trashed and needed some food so the run kind of sucked. Now to BBQ and scare off all the little ghosts and goblins.  

13 mile run this morning with Steve and Logan. We ran out by the new airport construction and did a loop around Blue Bunny ice cream area and then back to the Hoopers. It was a nice morning and the run was good. Only my hamstring really hurt again. By the end of the loop I was ready to be done. I was thinking about extending to hit 15 this morning but it just hurt too bad. We'll have to figure that out. Now it's off to AZ to get the teeth fixed. Bummer!