Clyde's Comeback!

I can't believe Paddy won the PGA! Although you've got to give him credit for sinking 3 really tough putts to close it out. 2 majors in one year... Tiger please come back!

My body is just boot camp trashed. It seems that last year after my Lake Powell trip with the scouts that I was pretty "waxed". I'm not sure why? Gainer back flips off the house boat, mad crashes on the wake board, extreme downhill long jumping, and winning the Sumo UFC Wrestling Celebrity death match tournament (twice) and some of the guys are like 250lbs and I'm the smallest one. Anyways I'm sore in places I haven't been sore for a long time. The last two weeks I've had to drop my whole weekend of running for youth activities... I hope that the blessing of service will make up for the missed training and that my body will rebound from the war I've put it through. 

17.1 mile big workout this morning with Logan at the DC. 4 mile warm up, 9 mile Tinman tempo (5:57 avg), 4.1 mile cool down. I was up at 3:30 a.m and running by 4 so we could get this one done. This extreme early morning stuff sucks but it feels soo good to be done with the workout and to not have to sit and worry about it all day. 

No high lights this morning. It was very dark and hard to see the trail in most places. I stayed with Logan until just after mile 4 of the tempo and then he picked it up and I just stayed with the goal pace. The hamstrings were really tight coming into the workout but didn't really bother me during- I hope they will stay loose the rest of the day.

(Black Stratus- 47.1) 

5 easy miles this afternoon out in the sun- sounds like fun!

(Blue Cumulus- 466.05) 

12.2 mile run this morning. Slept in until 5 a.m and then got out and got the run in just in time to get to work. It wasn't as cool out today as it was yesterday morning. I'm looking forward to fall- big time! I really tried to relax today and focus on some smooth form. I need a good recovery day before tomorrows 1000m workout at the track. 

(Landreth- 360.7) 

5.8 miles on the treadmill this afternoon. I wasn't in the mood to hit the heat. Plus I wanted to listen to some sick 80's jams like this one from Van Halen- "I'll wait"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vdcLhW5AQc&feature=related 

15 of the very  worst miles ever this morning. I felt like today was going to be  trouble and it turned out to be worse than I'd planned for. Up at 3:30 a.m and at the  track running by 4 a.m with Logan and Dave. We started off with 3 miles of warm-up in GS and then 2 miles at Tinman tempo pace. Both of these felt strained but doable-  however I really feared the track. Now we start the 1000's- 3:17 on the first one (slower than any of the ones I did two weeks ago). 3:17 on the second, 3:18 on the third and starting to fall apart. Then 3:29 on the forth and it hurt like @#$% the whole time. I actually got really worried after the first lap and backed off but it still hurt. After I finished I told the guys to keep going and I'd just go run out on the road up into GS. So I went out 3.5 miles and then back. I hit a total of 3 potty stops this morning- but that wasn't the only or main problem. On the last two miles coming back to the HS I was dizzy and running all over the road, and most importantly both hamstrings and calves had knots in them and the legs were hurting worse than at the end of a marathon. 

I'm trying to figure out what was going on. Basically I feel that maybe these two big workouts a week might be too much. I'm just not recovering from them. In fact today I think I'm still not recovered from the mile workout Logan and I did last Wednesday night. I know that these harder/ speed type workouts are working and getting me faster, but I also feel like I'm one workout away from injury...

So I'm not sure what I'll do from here on out. For now I'm just going to try and run very easy the rest of the week. Then go see April  for a massage on Saturday- then let that sink in over the weekend and I'll try the Tinman workout on Monday and play it by ear.  Thank goodness I don't have to run the rest of the day. I plan on resting all day long and trying to get caught up on what I figure is a weeks worth of sleep I've got behind on over the last two weeks. That could be a factor too. 

(Red Stratus- 476) 

12 mile run this morning. I slept in until 6 and didn't get out until 6:30 a.m and it felt great. Not to say that I felt totally fine after being so jacked yesterday but I felt way better. Actually I had some kind of 24-hour bug yesterday and spent much of the day asleep with medication working it's magic. 

Today was nice though. I went over into GS and the back up over the hill to the powerline trail and up to the water tank- up the road a little and then back around industrial and the long way home to make it 12 miles. What a nice morning out in the desert. I really need to get out there more. It's just relaxing and helps me be not so stressed about running and racing. Also not that summer is over by any means- but I could kind of see fall coming as the sun was coming up over the horizon this morning. We still have months of heat but it's nice to be on the downward slop of the beast.

(Blue Cumulus- 478.05) 

8 miles tonight with the running club. Out and back from the store. I tried to keep the pace nice and slow to help recover but Abraham Lincoln was feeling frisky and kept trying to push things. It's nice out in this town after the sun goes down for the day.

(Landreth 368.7) 

9.25 mile run this morning. Up over the hill into GS and around Middleton the long way. Good to be out in the desert again as the sun was coming up. Two more runs this  week and I can go see April and get this hamstring worked out. It's really, really tight and also just leads to early heavy legs during every run. The calves are feeling better though- so I guess you win some and lose some every day. 

(Red Stratus 485.25) 

5.75 miles this afternoon on the treadmill. I wasn't sure of how many to do because the plan was for 5 this afternoon but the weekly goal was for 110 and I was one mile back so I evened it off leaving the solo 20 mile run tomorrow morning.

I warmed up very slow for two songs on the treadmill and then just worked through it. Felt better than I though it would going in. Glad it's done and now I can rest up for the morning run.

(Blue Stratus 440.4) 

20 miles with Dave and Logan. Up at 2:40 a.m to meet and be running by 3:15 a.m. We don't do this to win the popular vote and get fan mail. Those guys had a x-country meet today and needed to be done early- I just wanted to run with them rather than alone. We started at the store and ran out 10 miles up the Gunlock road and then back. We hit a avg of 7:06 for the run- miles 16, 17, 18, and 19 were at Tinman tempo pace- with the fastest one being at 5:46. The whole course is very rolling/ challenging to hold any type of fast pace. So this was a pretty good finishing effort. 

I got home and planned to shower and sleep until my 10 a.m massage with April... But Mik'L was pumped to watch the Tevoed Olympic with me. So at 6 a.m on Saturday morning when most Americans are happy to be in bed. We were on the couch watching Phelps and everyone else in Beijing. Classic morning at the Behunin house. Now Mik'L is making her world famous Pancakes.

(Black Stratus 67.1) 

Just got back from my massage with April. Oh man I feel like I just was in a street fight. She said my hamstrings couldn't have been any tighter and cautioned that I may need to cut back and rest a little... Hopefully the rest of today and Sunday will provide some quality R&R for the system.