Clyde's Comeback!

Been feeling a little sick since Christmas eve. Today it was worse then the last two. We had family in town and were going golfing. I knew I didn't have it in me to serve two masters today so I bagged the run. Good choice because I just felt rotten and golfing would have even been worse if I'd have ran before. 

Waited til mid day to get out. Then met Mike W over at the DC to run the STG half course. We did 1.4 before to go drop a water and then came back and restarted the watch at the beginning of the half. Mike kept it solid the entire run and our avg for the half was 6:46 pace or a 1:28:30. Not bad at all for him considering this course sucks (very hilly) and he ran 20 miles the day before. He's doing great and running better than I've ever know him to. Boston should be a great race for him with a sub 3hr a very realistic goal. 

After the half we jogged one mile to cool him down. Good run today. I still feel sickish. Head, throat and lots of snot in the nose. Makes me really appreciate being fully healthy. I feel like Superman when I'm not weighted down with some health issue. 

Did the southern parkway loop. Started out around the park and then hit the parkway down into Sun River. Connected to the river trail there and took it up to our office. Ended the run there because we left Mik'L's car there last night and so she took my truck to work. Felt pretty blah today. Still fighting a sickness off. Really drug it for the first 5 miles or so. Finished with a 6:45 avg. 

Did not want to run today. Took forever to get out the door and I felt horrible doing it. Still trying to get over this head cold but after last night I'm not taking any more Nyquil. It just leaves me feeling so jacked in the morning. Anyways once out I just tried to put one foot in front of the other and it was basically work for the entire run. Looped the old tempo loop course out through the fields. Then I hit the Mesquito trail and tried to hit as much of the river trail as I could back to river road. 6:55 avg and glad to be done. 

Regular DC loop. Today was the worst so far. Just hurt and felt like crap. Pushed through and hit an avg of 7:10 so pretty slow compared to the rest of the week. I'm heading up to Torrey and will be ice fishing tomorrow on the Boulder Mt. So today will be my last run of the year. Glad to have just gone over 3,800 miles for the year. Hope to keep the ball rolling for years to come and maybe bust a few good races off here and there.