Winning Back What I Lost

615AM: Recovery run.  Didn't get very much sleep last night so I was more than a little sluggish.  Started to get a rhythm about half way into the run.  Temps were cool (50's) but I was still sweating like normal.  I wonder if that is attributable to lack of hydration.  I need to drink more water but I'm having a hard time cutting back on my Diet Mt. Dew addiction.  8:33/mi pace overall. 

620AM:  No rest for the weary.  I need to get to bed earlier but that is almost never in the cards. Getting out of bed is difficult but it does feel pretty good to get those miles in the bank to start off the day.  Found out today that my bro-in-law will be lending us his trailer to take down to St. George.  This is a good thing since I put off looking for a hotel room until a couple of weeks ago and they were all gone.  I told my wife that we'd probably have to stay in Mesquite, NV and get up at O dark thirty to get me to the busses and she immediately got on the horn to her brother.  8:36/mi overall

625AM: Got home late last night from a fishing trip w/ my dad to the S Fork Boise R.  Normally, that would be a nice diversion but not an especially memorable occasion.  Well, this one was different precisely because we (my dad) flipped the boat and we floated down river for a couple hundred yards holding onto my overturned pontoon.  We were eventually able to flip it back over and then float downstream, sans oars, near where I had stashed my mt bike so that I could bike 3 or 4 miles uphill back to my truck and trailer.  The whole episode was a model for what not to do.  Tops on the list: Never wear waders when floating because they act like concrete golashes and pull you down to the bottom.  I can laugh about it now but the outcome was sort of in doubt until we actually got to the riverbank a few minutes after we had flipped the boat.

Exhausting run that ended w/ me dry heaving in my front yard in full view of neighbors leaving for work.  It wasn't that I ran hard (8:25/mi pace overall) but I did pick up the pace the last couple of miles and sprinted to the end.  I think the recidivism rate for hurling after/during a run is similar to suffering from a concussion or rolling an ankle.  Once you do it once, it becomes increasingly likely that you'll do it again.   

930PM: New shoes today- Nike LunaRacer's.  They are super light and have a surprising amount of cushion.  3M really slow with my wife and then 4+ miles alone (7:40/mi; 8:32/mi; 8:34/mi; 7:17/mi; cooldown).

730AM:  Long run this morning on Boise R. Greenbelt; more like 19M and then a cooldown; kept the pace at 8:30ish the first 17M then a blister on my right foot really started to bother me; shouldn't have worn my new shoes; they felt great otherwise; mile 16 was 8:18/mi and mile 17 was 8:21/mi so I wasn't really all that fatigued. I also had to combat a horde of bicyclists on the GB.  They were all dressed up for some Mardi Gras activity that was going on downtown.  The annoying part was that most of them were riding 2 and 3 abreast and making me go on the grass.  Ugghh!!