Clyde's Comeback!

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Location:

St. George,UT,U.S.A

Member Since:

Apr 02, 2005

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

97th at Boston

1:09:40 Half Marathon

2:25:50 Marathon

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get healthy enough to enjoy a run again.

Long-Term Running Goals:

To be able to do it... long term. 

Personal:

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift" -Steve Prefontaine

Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll be... ever again.

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Total Distance
21.00

21 miles this morning. Very, very good workout. Finally!

Met up with some of the STG running club and we did the 20 miles from above the store down. I did the first 10 at a brisk but not hard pace and then tried to hammer the second 10 miles down to the store. After I did one mile to cool down. Total avg for the 20 miles was 5:47 and the cool down mile was on it's own thing. 1:55:47 total for the 20 miles (last year on this workout I was 1:59:40 or something). 

First 10 miles in 1:02:20 or so I didn't keep these on separate times so I don't have the split breakdown for each ten miles. I wanted to just run nice and smooth here and kind of warm up and prepare for the second half of the workout. First mile was in 6:13 (way fast) and it just stayed fast all day. Even the Veyo hill was still in warm up mode and it was in 7:13 way faster than last year when I did this workout. 

Second 10 miles in 53:27 or something like that. I just was feeling very good. Even the hamstring that was hurting still hurt but I was able to focus on the run and just deal with the pain.

1. 5:38- this mile was 10- 15 seconds slow because of a water break and length was weird. So I ran around a 5:25 pace effort on this mile.

2. 5:05

3. 5:16

4. 5:16

5. 5:30- found my half empty water bottle here

6. 5:33- up the Winchester Hill

7. 5:12

8. 5:04

9. 5:32- lost focus and slide off pace a little

10. 5:18- could have pushed this mile under 5:10 but I was already way ahead of my goal so I was happy to just bring it in. 

Like I said I didn't have the garmin set for two different times (each 10 mile split) so I didn't have my second 10 mile avg. But from what Mik'L and I figured in the car I hit the last 10 miles at an avg of 5:19 pace or so... the math could be off. Not bad... even with the first mile that should have been at least a 5:25 if not faster but my water and gu were a little farther down the course like .15 of it was done as my first (10 mile). Then got going on the fast portion after the stop. 

Anyways I'm pumped about this workout. I did it last year and it gave me a lot of confidence going into STGM. I've been wanting to hit it again but have been worried about "how I'd do" since I've raced so poor all summer. This gives me a big boost to know I'm on schedule or close to it. I also had 98 road kills today of other people who were out running the course. That made if fun to be running down so many people the whole time.

(Speedstar's 185.5) 


 

 

Comments
From Mike Warren on Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:27:39

Clyde, good to see you today. I was right behind you, getting ready to make my move. But then we hit the first 100 yds of the run and I decided to let you go, HAha. Incredible run for you today! Glad you felt so good and what improvement over last year, WOW!

From James on Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 15:38:49

Nice workout for sure!

From Jon on Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 15:41:46

Wow, good thing you didn't come to TOU or you would have smoked us all. Clyde science rules!

From Superfly on Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 23:49:57

Thanks guys. It was sure nice to finally kind of see where my fitness is.

Mike- we missed you at the Olympic marathon party. Hopefully you wife is feeling better.

From superfly on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 18:06:44

Clyde,

I was talking to Steve on saturday and mentioned that someone fly past me on the winchester hill.....he said that would be Clyde. I was one of your road kills... I must of times this run pretty good because I only had 5 prople pass me. I ran from Veyo to the church. You will laugh at my time, 9:45 average for the 16.5 miles. That was my first attempt at the Veyo hill & Dammeron Valley. I was pleased with my pace overall but the Winchester hill was the thorn in my side. One day maybe I can fly down the course like you.....Keep it up.

From scotthughes on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 18:15:00

Sorry clyde...I placed your name instead of mine.

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