Clyde's Comeback!

Longish run this morning. Mik'L took Myler to her mom's so I had a little more time to run today before the other days activities started. Hit the DC loop but extended down into Bloomington and around it's loop. Felt fairly good but not super strong. From the park back to the house I dug a little deeper and caught the 7 min guy. So ended the 17.2 mile run in 2:00:04 and a 7:00 overall avg. Now to start delivering the 100+ gifts to our clients. My wife thinks or expects me to do it all today... we'll see. 

Over to the park then B-hills and out to the freeway. Then down in to Blooninton and up the trail to River Road and finally back home. Felt a little tired this morning and struggled to get any groove going. 7:06 avg. 29 F this morning. 

10.1 miles this morning at 5:30 with Dave and Logan for the new, cruel and unusual running club meeting. Did the park/ freeway loop. Kept it honest from the start and then Logan started pushing the pace as we got into B-hills. The last couple miles were under 6 min pace and we tied the 7 min guy as we entered my cul de sac. Nice push this morning. Good to get the legs turning over again and the lungs using a more than comfortable amount of O2. 26 F out but felt comfy once we were rolling.

2.4 miles to cool off after the I got done with the  guys. Just looped the park. Felt good to cool the legs off after a solid push at the end of our 10 miler. 

DC loop but extended up around Morningside one the first part. Then extended around Little Valley at the end. Just kept it smooth and picked it up only the last mile or so to tie the 7 min guy at the line. Right now he and I are running right at the same level. 7:00 avg

Same loop as yesterday. I started out and just wanted to take it EZ and try to relax. I want to do some kind of longer workout tomorrow morning so I didn't want to use any of the legs today. So through 6 or so miles I was just running laxi taxi but looked at the time and was still faster than I ran yesterday. So I stayed in that groove and pushed a little harder on the last mile. Ended with a 6:52 avg beating yesterdays time of a 7 min avg. Plus it was finally good to drop the 7 min guy. He's been talking a lot of smack all week and I had to remind him of his limitations.

Well this is a tale of the run that almost never happened. I didn't have a plan last night and got to bed late. Then didn't wake up and didn't want to go out this morning. So I bagged it. We got some projects done here at the house and did some shopping before noon. Then I got hungry and had Burger King for lunch.... We got home and by around 2 p.m I decided to go out.

In the beginning it was trouble. The Burger King wasn't sitting well at all and I came close to barfing or just laying down on the trail. Hit a couple porta potties which helped the situation and kept grinding. Never let the dogs out but kept it honest the entire run. Hit a solid 8 mile section up and down the river trail right around 6 min pace and finished the run with a 6:27 avg. Nothing amazing and it never felt that great but it's done. The one thing I had going for me was the weather. 55 F, sunny and no wind. It was just amazing. So in the end the lesson learned is just get up and run first thing- get it out of the way and then you've got the rest of the day to eat and chillax.