Clyde's Comeback!

A short run to finish off 2007. Now I'll start my official rest phase for the next four days and do No running until Saturday. However I will get a good workout in every day.

First day off. I enjoyed the New Years day at the annual golf tournament at Green Springs. It's set up as a 5-man scramble format. We finished the day at 8 under par. Not great but we improved from last years 6 under score. It took ALL day. We got to the club house at 9:30 and teed off at 10 a.m. and finally finished at 4:30 p.m.

After that was over I just came home and watched football the rest of the night.

I wasn't going to run at all this week but I met up with Steve O. at the gym and he took me through a "boot camp" type workout for my legs. We just jogged on all the running parts. It was more for a warm-up, and recovery during the workout.

My legs just took beat down Monday night RAW style. We did squats, lunges, and that kind of stuff with low weights and high rep's. Overall a great workout and more strenuous than if I'd gone out for a 14 mile run. It's a good thing I'm not running this week because tomorrow I won't be able to walk I'll be so sore.

I'd like to condition my legs into doing something like this once a week for the rest of the winter. I could see big boosts in speed from a workout like this if done along side mid- high mileage running.

For my workout today I did a full wrestling practice.I pretty much got the heart rate up and a sweat going for two hours. With the sore legs from the workout on Wednesday with Steve O. my body is officially trashed. Now I'm sore from the neck down to my pinky tow. Despite the soreness I'm really glad to have gotten in such good workouts without even really running.

1 hour spin class where I road for 19.8 miles.

20 min's warm-up on the elliptical before spin class.

Another good solid non- running workout. That will be all- as tomorrow I'll be back to running again. My legs are still totally sore from the lifting workout on Wednesday. So the spin class was that much harder. I tried to push myself and keep the resistance up as much as possible. Other than my legs being so sore prior to the class- the class it's self was a blast. Steve O. does a excellent job with the instruction and keeping everyone in there working.

I'll hit another wrestling workout this afternoon. Not as intense as yesterday. Just the core workout stuff today.

Well I ended my "time off" phase today. After taking the last four days off of running it was time to get back in the saddle. I actually finished those days more sore than if I had been running. My legs are starting to feel better from the lifting workout the other day with Steve O. but my left hamstring is crazy tight. I don't think it's tore but it sure hurts.

Today I took the run as easy as I could allow my self to. Just to ease back into running. I had a photo finish with the 7 min guy and I didn't know it at the time. The run felt great though I could have gone for hours but didn't want to over due anything. The hamstring is very tight but as long as I don't push the pace at all it doesn't seem to bother me much when I'm running. It actually feels better running than it does walking?

Now that I've had my break I'm ready to slide back into some real training. I'll try and catch 70-90 mpw for the rest of the wrestling season and get a couple weeks over 100 in before Del Sol along with some good speed stuff. Then after that I'll work into my 120 mpw.