Today's work out, was a pretty good one albeit that its a little slower than my last two but I was taking it easy and enjoying the ride for the first mile then stepped it up for the last two. Speaking of enjoying the ride I picked that slogan up from an ad for my new running shoes, the Mizuno Wave Prophecies, today was my second run in them and so far I really like them they are by far the best shoe I have ever worn to run in and they are my second pair of Mizuno's, I am hooked.

It was pretty chilly this evening I think it was 28 when I headed out, which I have found I really like, it does kinda suck when you step out but 10 min or so into the run its really nice, I typically wear a pair of Under Armor cold weather running pants and one long sleeve and one short sleeve tech shirts along with a beanie and a pair of really thin gloves which is perfect for me. I can typically wear this outfit from about 15 to the low 30's at which point the pants become pretty annoying so I go with shorts and loose the beanie and gloves but keep the two tech shirts.

Part of my pre-run ritual is to eat an energy gel 15 min before I run I always get the GU jet blackberry as it is the only GU product that has 2x caffeine but our local GNC was out Sunday so I had to order some and since I've been out for about a week I picked up a few packs of CLIF Shots Mocha with caffeine at Wal-Mart of all places and let me say this, OMG they taste like eating Hershey chocolate syrup strait from the bottle, I like it. Note: The GU jet blackberry kinda tastes like crap but they rock for energy.  While I was adding the link to CLIF shots web page I was doing a little reading they got a turbo formula sounds like just what I need 


Immediately after my runs I use two products for recovery Gener 8 Vitargo S2 and Dymatize Elite Recoupe  the first is a carb drink to refuel the muscles and aid in recovery the other is BCAA's in a powder I get them both in orange flavor and mix them in a magic bullet with water. I used to take A GNC recovery protein shake which didn't do bad but I had trouble digesting it, after talking with the "drug dealers" down at GNC they turned me onto the above products and I really like these two in combination as I seem to recover quicker from my workouts than with the protein shakes.