Clyde's Comeback!

10 mile morning run up to the canal and took a right. I saw a large turtle swimming in the canal. At first I thought it was dead but as I got closer it bolted- it was cool. Almost the same run as on Saturday. My stomach is very tight from the omelette, cheese and jalapeño bacon I've been eating here. Along with a bunch of other non approved items. Even though I felt like trash I still got a good run in. 6:52 min/miles for average on the run.

10 mile run this afternoon here in PHX. It was like record high temperatures today for this time of year. I think it got up to 93 or 94... Regardless it felt warm for November. I didn't have anything going on today so I just did my morning run and then lay by the pool and got a good burn... Then got out for another run just to pass the time. I went up to the canal again and took a left and ran it up and down. 6:39 min/mile average on the run.

14mile run this morning. I drove from the hotel down to the Tempe Lake by the ASU campus. I did two full loops and a little more here and there. Mik'L ran there the other day and they cut over the bridge that runs in the middle of the lake. I went down to the very bottom past the golf course and made my way around it. The run was ok. I think I'm getting the pluresy or whatever it was called in my chest again. It's a sharpe pain right under my ribs. In the past it has hurt for a week or so and then went away. So we will see how this works out.

We don't fly out until 7 p.m today. So I may end up doing a few more this afternoon just to pass the time. I'm looking forward to getting home and getting back into a regular groove. I really haven't enjoyed the running down here on this trip. Too much traffic and people. I like a little more laid back atmospher while in enjoy a run.

6 more miles up the trail and back. Went at 1 p.m. and it was pretty warm. Now to start getting ready to fly home.

6.5 mile morning loop in GS. Back home, and back to the grind big time. Wrestling started on Monday so today will be my first day at practice. From now through the middle of Feb is where getting in miles becomes very interesting.

6.15 mile run this afternoon. I finished up with work stuff at around 2 p.m. and had an hour and 15 min's to eat lunch (I was starving) and do a run. All before wrestling practice started. So I drove to Mik'L's mom's house because it was close and I ate a can of raviolli then did a run through Bloomington Hills over to the trail that goes over to the Dixie Center and then back on the river trail.

I finished up with just enough time to drive over to the high school and get parctice going. A long day overall. I can't pull this off for the next three months- that's for sure.

7 mile run out and back into GS. The pluresy or whatever it is in my chest is feeling better than it was at the first of the week. That's the good new. The bad is that my left ankle or tendon is hurting. Don't ask my why- It's just decided it would start hurting me on Wednesday morning and has ever since. Hopefully it will work it's way out today.

6.15 mile loop this afternoon. Same run as Wednesday. This time I had my garmin to check how far it was. Google Earth was onlyl off .1 from my garmin.

My ankle/ tendon are around 65%. It is very sore to walk on but not as bad when I'm running. Other than when I'm pounding it on a harder surface.

My pluresy/ chest pain is day to day. The mornings it hurts but really not too bad. In the afternoons like today it just kills. I couldn't get faster than 7 min pace at any part of this run today because of the discomfot in my chest.

So it must sound like I'm a problem child and that I have all these issues... I don't know what is going on. One week ago I was feeling amazing. Furthermore I don't know where all this has come from so I'm hoping it will just pass through and move on the the next guy.

7..8 mile run this morning. Up into GS and hit the trail to the powerline and then back down into Middleton. Not a bad run. Chest really didn't hurt at all ( I just took it easy), and my ankle was sore but doable for the run.

6.5 mile run up around GS. Felt good tonight- even after a long day of work and wrestling. Chest pain was very minimal. The ankle/tendon hurt a little more but better than it has been.

Big run today. This morning when we met up we had no idea where we would go to. We remembered that Dave and his runners would be doing a run-a-thon at the PVHS track. So we ran the T'bone trail over to the water tank and down into GS then on the the high school. We said hi to the runners there and then started back down to the Dixie Center. I thought that it was going to be hard regardless of what way we went back so we might as well loop the hill and see where we are at. It ended up being a little longer than everyone was looking for.

I was able to hold at least a sub 7min pace from the high school to the 20th mile, and then I made myself just relax back to the store.

Steve and I also picked it up around the 7th mile for a mile or so of tempo. As we came down out of GS we were rolling at 4:45 pace. I looked at my pace on the garmin and all I saw was the :45 and thought it was 5:45 pace. I said to myself "I feel like I'm running pretty fast for just under 6 min pace." Then I laid it down for anouther quarter and was somewhere around 4:36 or so until Steve wanted to back off. Good thing we did, because there was still a long ways to go.

Glad to get a long run in. I've felt like I needed one for a few weeks. It has just been really easy to talk myself out of it so far. Today I didn't have much time to think about it- so I just went along for the ride. This run should give me a good base to taper off and get ready to race the half next week.

Chest pain was gone this morning. The ankle/tendon was still sore... but like the rest of the week I just went out and ran on it- for better or worse.