What ever it takes!

Having an easy day is 1 thing, but having it because I'm lazy really upsets me.  I was planning on riding my bike to work today, but the rain last night scared me off.  I apparently forgot to turn on my alarm clock last night so I slept in until 5:00, looked outside and it as absolutely beautiful out and actually warmer than some of the days I've ridden in so I'm not sure what my issue was but I wimped out and just went to the gym anyway.  7 elliptical miles in 59 minutes.

This week is going to be pretty light, Scout Camp on Wednesday, and an early flight on Friday to Miami.  Plan is to hit it hard next week in Miami, whether it's running or something else I plan to do doubles as often as possible.  I really need to drop my injury weight before starting St. George training.  I'd like to get some sort of base running miles in before that starts too.

Met my bike friends this morning and went for an absolutely beautiful early morning ride out around Hoogle Zoo and back on Wasatch, my legs were a bit jelloy still but I won every hill climb challenge and after getting to the end of our ride one of the guys told me he's glad I was going out of town cause he can't keep up with me, (I think he was joking, but not sure) and then they asked me if I wanted to join their LotoJa team.  Humm, interesting thought.  3 weeks out from St George.

This story is going to border on the line of a Burt story.  When I got back to my office building I went to the showers and then started putting on my clothes that I had brought last Friday and left in the locker, put my shirt on, socks on, and then tried to get my pants on,  humm they didn't fit, at all.  Have I gotten that fat?  Looked down and realized I had accidently packed my wifes pants, and un-fortunately, in this case, she is much smaller than me.  So paint the picture, me in a dress shirt, lycra shorts, black dress socks and a pair of Nike Free's, and the only place I could think of that sells pants at 7:00am is Walmart.  Yep, if someone had a camera I'm going to end up on the people of Walmart website for sure.  How Embarrassing!!

On a happier note, last night my kids wanted to race me around the yard, so I took off my shoes and ran barefoot in the grass with my kids.  My hip seemed to hold up pretty well, it didn't hurt at all, but it didn't feel exactly normal.  I think I have forgotten how to run but I'm sure it will come back.  I'm going to continue to be a cyclist for 1 more week and then slowly start running.

25.5 miles in 1:20:45  18.9 mph avg.

No workout yesterday except running from 30 9 year old boys with foam swords at Cub Scout camp.  I'd have to say though, if I can do that my leg must be pretty close to being able to run again.  I'm actually afraid to start running again, what if I'm not as fast as I used to be, what if I hurt myself again,  I sure hope the fitness comes back quick, I really don't want to start from scratch.  That was hard!

So today I went for my last group bike ride for a while, warmish temps but once again an awesome ride,  Tim, the Australian wanted to break ahead of the main group and get some miles going up Little Cottonwood before doing the normal 22 mile loop, so a group of 4 of us went ahead and started up the canyon, it was absolutely beautiful up the canyon this morning, a nice cool breeze and the river was raging.  Went up to gate B which was about 3 miles up and then came back down.  I'm a little bit timid coming down canyons like that, I hit a top speed of 47 but I'm sure the others hit 55 or so.  To scary for me, people die going that fast, I'm sure they die going 47 too.

Finished the regular Thursday loop and ended up going 30 miles in 1:45. 16.7 mph avg speed.

Early flight to Miami tomorrow.

4 laps around the 1/4 mile loop by my house while waiting for the airport shuttle to come get me.  Felt good, I'm ready for a comeback.

Wow!  What a way to make a come back to running, 6 weeks since I last ran, 14 weeks since I ran without agonizing pain.  My wife is always jealous of my traveling and says I'm just on vacation all the time.  Normally I tell her it's no vacation and I have to work the entire time.  Well not this trip, she has every reason to be jealous of this one, I'm livin the dream.  I'm staying at the Eden Roc hotel on Miami South beach, they put me in a huge suite with a balcony and my bed is facing the window so when I wake up in the morning I look out on to the beach and ocean.  

I woke up at 5:00 am expecting it to be light for some reason, layed in bed and at 5:30 decided it wasn't getting light anytime soon so I headed to the hotel gym, did 1 elliptical mile and then decided to try out the ol' leg,  hopped on the treadmill, started slow and then worked my way up to 7:00 /mile pace.  Ran 3 miles in just under 23 minutes, it started getting light so I headed outside.  Ran along the boardwalk for 2.5 miles and then decided to try barefoot running on the beach back, took off my shoes and carried them.  Ran along the beach line with the waves hitting my feet, if felt great.  It was brutally hot and humid this morning, and I've never done it before but I decided I was at the beach and would normally just be in a swimsuit anyway so I took my shirt off and ran barefoot and shirtless.  Loved every minute of my run this morning, it felt good and my hip never acted up at all.  8 miles may have been a little over zealous for my first run back but hey, you can't argue with a run like that.

Now off to the part my wife shouldn't be jealous of, work.