Clyde's Comeback!

8 mile morning run

It sure felt like Monday when I woke up this morning. I finally made it out the door and pushed out a killer 8:16 first mile and then started to wake up and get going. After a few miles I felt good and overall a lot better than last Monday.

7.2 miles this afternoon/evening

Turtle! I saw this little guy up on the trail above the Green Springs area. This was the littlest one by far. Not much bigger than a CD or so.

Anyways the run was good. I only had a hour to go out so I cut it a little shorter than I wanted to. A little faster pace than regular runs- maybe around 6:30 min/mile pace or so.

9.2 miles this morning on the Washington exit loop. Felt pretty good- I don't like running in the dark. I almost rolled my ankle on some stuff I couldn’t see. It felt good this morning, I think like 73 degrees. The weather although hot has been very nice lately compared to a few weeks ago.

9.2 miles this evening. I feel like I'm running really well right now. I haven't felt this good since June. The first four miles were up in the reserve then I dropped down into Green Springs area and headed back to Middleton. I got into a nice groove and hit what felt like very easy 6:30 min/mile pace the last five miles or so. The rhythm feels very good-hopefully I'll hang on to it for the rest of the year.

9.3 mile track workout this morning- Alone with just the Pine View High cheerleaders...

3.3 mile warm-up

5x 800 ( one more than last week)

1. 2:28- just trying to get started

400 recovery

2. 2:31- A little slower, it's hard doing them alone. Last week I had Steve around...I just got lazy

400 recovery

3. 2:28

400

4. 2:31- Too slow on the first lap

800 Recovery

5. 2:28- First lap in 1:12 but then didn't finish it as strong. Boo!

Cooled down and ran back home.

Pretty good workout. Not as fast as last week but it was a little harder to do it without someone else pushing me. Plus last night I did my workout a little later, longer, and harder than ideal (day before speed). The good news is that I did a speed workout. If I can make myself get at least something like this in once a week I'll be doing better.

7.2 mile easy run this eveing. I got about 2.5 miles into what was going to be a 9 mile run and got really hungry. I thought I had eaten enough a few hours before the run but I guess not. So I just cut it a little short and came home to eat the world.

13.5 mile relaxed morning run. The last two mornings it has been in the 60's here. 66 and 69 respectively. It’s been since the first of May since we’ve seen a 60 anything on the thermometer. So anyways it made for a nice run. I went up into the reserve and did a version of my old “big loop” hitting the golf course for some water around mile 8- it was ice cold and made my run. I feel like I have a race this weekend- I don’t but I’m sure nervous for some reason. I’m excited to see how well everyone dose in the upcoming Provo River Half and then the Great Salt Lake Half. Crazy stuff.

Down to a new low since maybe high school 145 lbs this morning. I started at 195 lbs in March or 2005. Last summer I got down to 146 lbs - but that was being way dehydrated. I didn't feel that way this morning.

6.5 more miles this evening. blah!

8 miles this morning.

Up into the reserve, over to water tank and down through industrial park to the house. Last night I pushed the 6.5 and did it late in the evening. Then got up early and did this run and just felt a little sluggish. Will try and get out earlier this afternoon/evening so I'm ready to go long again on Saturday morning.

5 more miles this eveing.

Morning club run with Steve and Bill. Bill had to cut out early. We ran from the running store around the back of Snow Canyon and up through the park until we hit the marathon course- then down to the store.

9 miles up, 8 miles down.

9 up was in 1:08:13 and was 7:34 min/ mile pace

After we got to the top I waited a few for Steve and we got some water he had stashed and I took a GU and then it was time to start the tempo. Here we go.

8 miles down was 42:47 and 5:20 min/ mile pace

Splits

1. 5:23

2. 5:14

3. 5:34

4. 5:17

5. 5:21

6. 5:24

7. 5:16

8. 5:13

Was very pleased with this workout. The first 9 miles were a pretty hard uphill and then I turned it over really well comming down. Actually didn't feel that fast. I don't know if I've ever did a workout with this kind of speed. Last week was @ 5:42 pace and I was happy with it. Hopefully I'll be ready to go sub 1:08 at Hobble Creek half.

Only did .3 cool down and then walked around the parking lot too.