Clyde's Comeback!

10.4 miles this morning here in Torrey around the regular "loop". It was cold out (31) when I was getting ready and then it did warm up a little on the run but not too much. The first 2.5-3.5 miles really sucked. I was pushing a good wind uphill into Teasdale and my calves were way tight. I just about turned around but thought it was possible that they might loosen up once I finished the hills. They did and I actually felt really good after about 6 miles. I saw several deer and a Golden Eagle.

10.4 mile morning run here in Torrey again. It was a little cooler this morning than it was yesterday. However I didn't have the headwind the first 3 miles or so and that was nice. Once I got warmed up I settled into a solid stride and ended up being 3 min's faster than yesterday with an avg of 7:15 pace. That's pretty good on this loop with 5 extra pounds of winter running gear on. 

Now I'm getting ready for a day of exploring for indian and spanish treasures up in the cliffs above town. Most likely it will be just a nice bike ride and hike up in there. But you never know when you may find a spanish gold bar?

4 miles this afternoon made up from my bike ride/ hike. I was out for over 3 hours and my garmin lost it's signal due to the canyon's and stuff. I ended up taking my cousins dog a 2 year old lab. It was a lot of work trying to keep him with my on the bike and riding with one hand. Then once we started hiking he was pretty good. By the time I got the poor guy home he was trashed. Still the morning after he hasn't come out of his house yet. Poor Jetter!

We didn't find any spanish gold or even any real indina artifacts. There was a small amount of potery and some chips made from making arrowheads. Our coolest find was a massive pectrified (sp?) tree laying in this was. We were miles from anyone and I dout it's ever been found before. Even if it was due to the area there is no way someone could haul it out. It was really cool. In all my exploring I've never seen such a massive amount of prehistoric wood laying together.

No running today. I spent much of the day getting stuff ready to go... and then we ended up just coming back to STG instead of going up to northern Utah. That made me happy! Anyways by the time we drove home and got everything ready for Thanksgiving I was dead and it was dark. 

13 miles this morning with Logan. We had a nice little Thanksgiving run up to the powerline trail and then over to the top of Middleton trail. From there we went over to the new overpass and back around. It was an nice relaxing pace and the weather was soothing. Overcast and no wind. Looks like it could rain a lot later today. 

10 miles this afternoon. I was too lazy to go out this morning and really  struggled to even go at all. But after all the procrastination I ate some left over turkey and stuff and hit the road. I ran over to GS and then up the trail to the Iceburg trail and I took that steep, rocky thing up  to the top of the mesa and then followed the mesa across to where I dropped off- that part was without a trail and for the most part it was smooth sailing but I did hit some really rocky spots and about rolled the old ankle. This turned out to be a challenging but fun run. 1:27;33 for 10.04 miles says it all. 

14.1 mile run this morning with Logan, Dave and Ruth. We did part of the JEM trail above Hurricane. There are so many trails out there that we could have easily gone 20+ miles. It was a nice easy run. I think it took us just under 2hrs to do the run- so as you can see the pace was pretty slow. Overall a nice run and nice to get out and visit with everyone. 

We kind of put this together on a last minute. We were planning on going up to Zion and then some guys had things come up and we also decided there might be too much snow.