(Coulda Been a) Death Run
| Sunday Afternoon Run: 10 minutes 3 seconds | -a lot |
4:10 p.m.
96° / 99° Heat Index kinda cloudy4+ Days Since My Last Run
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Wow, I feel great! I've kinda sorta given up on having a better month than last month... but I'm still gonna run, of course, and in fact I'm gonna push myself with some runs in the wicked heat. And there's still an outside chance I can make June better than May but I've got to overcome a mental roadblock -- I feel like I shouldn't on back-to-back days. That's exactly what I'll need to do in order to achieve my June goal. We'll see.In any case, I hit the trail today when the temp was absolutely searing. Well, it actually coulda been worse, like yesterday. Yesterday was a few degrees hotter but 96 with a 99 Heat Index is still kinda nuts. (Ideally I'd like 100+ but that's my craziness showing.)
My run of only 10 minutes seems weak but once again -- it was freakin' hot out there. No way I was gonna go more than that. No got dang way. It's a 12 to 15 minute walk to the trail and by the time I got there I was drenched in sweat. I didn't want to stretch as sweat was constantly screwing up my vision through my sunglasses. On top of the heat, I'd have that to deal with. At some point the bandanna on my head had reached its limit of stopping the sweat from running down onto my face. Ay caramba. My ice water was a slice of heaven when I finished my run, as was the practically cold shower when I returned to the house.
Overall, I think the run in such heat went well. No cramps, no massive exhaustion afterward... except a few minutes from getting back when I had already run out of water and three or four minutes of walking made me completely miserable. Now that I'm relaxing I'm feeling happy that I chose to do this run..... but now I wish I'd done it yesterday when it was 5 degrees hotter!!!
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