Clyde's Comeback!

8 mile morning run. It rained a little last night so I wanted to run the trail. When I left the house it was dark and I made my way up through GS to where the trail takes off back to the powerline. It was a nice morning out. The desert always smells so clean, and good after a little water comes down.

10 mile run this afternoon. We finished up with work around noon today and so after lunch I had time to get in a good little run before practice. I started from our office and ran down to the Dixie Center and hit the trail for the full loop up around Bloomington Hills and the post office and then I made my way back to the office. It was right on 10.05. I was suprised how close to 10 miles it was for just going out and running without looking at the course first.

Along the way up past the Dixie Center about one mile I saw a Turtle. A water swiming turtle here in the STG. I didn't know we had them here but I've seen this guy twice, and I thought I saw one months ago but I thought my eye's were being fooled. No fooling here. We have the desert turtles and we have swiming turtles down by the river. Anyways that's my STG National Geographic for the day.

Total time on the afternoon run was 1:08:20.

8 mile morning run. It was dark out and I find it crazy that there are Christmas lights up around the town. Even Christmas tress up inside peoples houses. Is it too early or is it just me.

7 mile run this afternoon. Did a run from the running store down to the softball fields and then did a couple big loops on the grass there and finally made my way back to the store.

8 miles real early this morning. I woke up at 3:30 and couldn't go back to sleep so after tossing and turning for what seeed to be forever I got out of bed at 4:45 and went out. I've got a big day planned with everything else in life so I may not get any more in today- and if so not much.

Didn't get back out. Just drained by the end of the day and I'm starting to get a little cold or flu. So I'm in bed by 8 p.m tonight.

Woke up feeling a little groggy from the night but made myself get out. It's starting to feel more like November... 45 degrees this morning, still not bad at all. The run was o.k. I need to get through this week with some of the work projects we have going on.

I'll be runing the half marathon this weekend but for some reason I'm not too thrilled about it. I have been getting in some pretty good miles but my lack of tempo paced runs is going to kill me.

6.5 mile GS Loop. Nice and easy the whole way until the last mile and then I just pushed out whatever I could. I didn't have wathch on but should have been around 5:30-5:40 pace back on that mile.

1.2 mile warm up

7.8 miles of the race

3 miles of cool down

7.2 miles at home to go blow of a lot of steam!

The race turned out to be a joke. I was rolling and feeling good. Then a race official told me to turn around at the worng spot. I asked them three times "Are you sure" and they said " yes, good job." So I did and then about two miles later I figured it out and then was just ready to start cloths lining people as I made my way back to the finish. These races in STG are a joke... don't waste your time coming down for this trash.

Anyways I ran my race miles at an 5:23 pace. That's with totally pulling out of race mode once I figured out they had sent me the wrong way. I was so mad. Mistakes like this shouldn't be made.

I have no question in my mind that I would have won. When I doubled back the closest runner to me was about 40-45 seconds back and I was just getting into it.

Big thanks to the STG Leisure Center for blowing another running event. I think they have it out for me they've jacked me up so many times. Boo to you.