Clyde's Comeback!

60 min's on the elliptical today at Summit fitness. They have had a deal all month that it was only $5 for the month of December. I decided today to go pay the five bucks and spend the rest of the month there to try and give the hamstring time to heal. It was feeling really good much of last week and then on Saturday it started to hurt again and it hurt the rest of the weekend. The gym will be a nice break from the day-to-day running I've grown use to the last 3 years and hopefully with some real time off of not running the hammy will feel better. I'd rather go through this now then in May or something. Plus I think I have a very similar injury to what Paul had last year around this time and he's the master of healing injuries and coming back just as fast or faster. So I'll follow his elliptical workout stuff and see what happens. 

Side note is that it has snowed here in the land of Zion for almost the entire day. It's not sticking to the ground but still pretty bone chilling conditions for our neck of the woods. This make the gym sound that much better. 

One hour on the elliptical this morning. My calves were way tight from yesterdays session. I picked a hill-type program and it really worked the calves over. Today I used a machine that works on more of a flat type of workout.

After the elliptical I spent another 30-40 min's with stretching, weights, core and pt stuff. The gym is kind of fun... and by the time I'm sick of it hopefully I'll be ready to start running outside again.  

One hour on the elliptical. Calves are still really sore... My legs are conditioned to run and that's about it. If I try new activities I really don't have much to give. Today I did 40 min's forward and 20 min's backwards to mix it up a little. It actually went 20-10-20-10. After I got a good core workout in, along with some chest and shoulder machine lifting. I'm sure tomorrow I'll be sore after that. Lots of stretching too. 

60 min's on the elliptical. We had 3 solid inches of snow in my back yard when we woke up this morning. I think this is more than I've ever seen it snow in the STG. I stuck to the same workout at the gym. The hammy feels good but I don't want to try it yet. I'll at least give it a week or so without any running. So I'll miss the club run tonight.

I planned on going to the gym all day but just never got time. We were rushing around from 7 a.m to 7 p.m and now I'm just trashed and don't care. We ended up finding out that Mik'L's  lease was up on her car and we thought for some reason it didn't end until March... so now we've got to get another new car. Unbelievable! So we spent the day Christmas shopping, car shopping and working at F1. But it felt like we were just spending money all day long and trying to stimulate the economy by ourselves. We didn't find her a car so I guess that will continue until the end of the month or until we find something else to lease. 

Blah! 

Another wasted workout day. We left the house at 6 a.m ish to go to Vegas for the day. My wife had to be down there early to take her brokers test... She passed! No more paying another broker. 

Then we went car shopping for a replacement car for her and the business. After hours and hours of messing around she alone picked a Toyota Tacoma 4 door silver TRUCK. I'll have to admit I didn't think she would go for something like that and I'm a little jealous too. It's sweet. I drove it home and when I left the dealership it had 6 miles on it. So now that headache is taken care of for three years until the lease is up and then we do it all over again.