Clyde's Comeback!

60 min's of elliptical this morning at Summit. My brief membership ends on Wednesday so I'll try and get there each day until it's up. I'm trying to do some leg curls and other things to help strengthen the hamstring. It's been pretty sore over the weekend so who know how it really is. 

3 miles on the treadmill this evening. Kept the pace slow to ensure I didn't hurt anything.  

60 min's on the elliptical. I only have one more day left of my gym pass... and then what?

60 min's on the elliptical. I did a Tinman tempo on the elliptical today... or effort. I just tried to keep the strides per min to around 190 and the heart rate around 130. Then after I did some weight and core lifting. 

Well I guess it's summery time: Month wise I turned in the lowest monthly total for me in just about three years at only 153.7 for the month. But I pushed out just over 400 more miles this year than last (4015 last year)! Way too many and I'll never do that again. It hurt me down the stretch making me feel over trained and wore out when it came time to race.

Along with getting my hamstring healthy again I'd like to mix things up a lot more this year. You know try some different things... (Squaw Peak 50 miler). However I'll do more biking and go back to my 2007 training of less speed work and more running according to how I feel other than what the numbers say. Anyways we've got another one in the books gang. Have a good New Year! 

This year started out like every year for me. I spent the day with the family "guys" in the annual New Years Day golf tournament here in STG. It's an exclusive tournament with 36 teams and a waiting list a mile long to get into. The golf portion is played in a scramble format with five players per team. 

We played pretty good shooting 10 under for the day. Besting last years 8 under mark and the 2007's horrible 6 under. Before then I didn't keep a record but one year like in 03 or 04 we took 2nd overall and was in the area of 16 under.

The day turned out to be really nice. Sunny and warm with no wind. I drove the ball great off the tee and hit the irons ok- I even hit a couple key putts too. I even birdied one hard par four without the help of my team. This hole is tough because it's a long uphill hole where your approach shot is blind. Then I holed the squeaky little downhill put to clam the solo birdie.

Anyways lots of fun for all and we even won some prizes too. Also USC plastered Penn St. as expected.  

Nothing today. But I did enjoy the Utah vs. Alabama game. Anyone else out there just hate the BCS?

This hamstring injury is redefining my life. I've got all this extra time... I'm not constantly sore... I can eat whatever I want and it shows up on my belly... and all of it sucks. I'm really longing for the days of endless miles. All I want to do is put on my shoes and let a 8 miler turn into 20... Poor me!