Um, it hit 100 today. I ran at a time when it had cooled off … to 84 and humid. The humidity was 67%. However, despite the humidity, my breathing was really good. I ran with Elizabeth for about 5 miles before she suggested I break off. As a result, I finished faster than I started, and I did 8.16 miles in 1:02:41, or 7:40s. Had I not run with Elizabeth, I probably would have been faster. But not that she didn’t give me a workout: She did damn well herself! She was keeping a solid pace, and her improvement from more than a month ago was measurable and significant.
In that last bit before concluding my run, though, I had a bit of a “blowout.” Something happened in my left calf. It felt maybe like a rip or an overstretch. It was something I could still run on, but it felt like an injury. I think I had pushed myself too much or something. After the run, the discomfort was there, feeling as if I was doing a calf stretch but while walking. I’m writing this now from home on 2 ibuprofen and with my left up, a cold pack on the calf. I hope it’s okay and doesn’t feel more serious, but we’ll have to see because “things go bump in the night.”
Other than that, my right ankle still did its thing of feeling sensitive in the beginning but fine during the run. This run, I had one stabbing feeling but it was in the left ankle instead of the right, and the next stride it was gone. Elizabeth and I stopped twice for water and Garmin didn’t quickly register the stoppage, to the tune of about 10 seconds of missed non-running.
Aside from the injuries, I actually felt really good in this heat. My breathing was fine, my legs didn’t feel tired, and I loved the saunalike feeling the weather provided. We ran starting around 7:30pm so the day was cooling off a bit and there was a light wind. All in all, a good run, one I’m glad I got in.