Argh. Well, the good is that I did what I hoped I’d do today to make up for some loss: I did 10.56 miles. The bad is the heat. It is slowing me down and wearing me down a bit. I ran in weather between 83-84 degrees, and with a humidity somewhere around 50%. For some reason, it is feeling more humid today than it’s reading. I had a little bit of relief in the form of cloudcover, which obscured the sun for about half of my run, and with the shade of trees I only had direct sun for maybe 1/4 of my run. Not bad. I pulled off 8:02s with water breaks and the occasional time Garmin wouldn’t stop. Here are my stats:
As for injuries, my legs felt good after yesterday’s run, and I only had that stabbing feeling in my left ankle once. It happened about a mile and a half in, and it lingered for a few footfalls but was gone. STILL it is behaving like this, over a year later! Such a strange injury!
Other than that, I was just so tired during this run. I couldn’t motivate myself to go much faster, I couldn’t lift my head, I just plodded along. I stopped for water pretty often, and had a PowerGel (x1 caffeine) about 8 miles in. It doesn’t feel as if it does much, but maybe it gives me just that little bit. I lost about 5 lbs. again today, getting me back down to 169 lbs. after I finished (from about 174 lbs. this morning). I feel a bit thinner after today’s run, or maybe the word is “wasted.” I need to get some muscle back on me, but I’m so drained from this heat running! 🙂