{"id":331,"date":"2010-06-05T18:21:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T22:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-06-05T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T22:23:48","slug":"the-heat-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/05\/the-heat-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heat Is On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phew!  I was really procrastinating doing today&#8217;s long run.  It was 90 degrees when I finally decided to roll out of bed, and my run was in solid 87-degree weather with a 45% humidity.  The sun was out but there were clouds making for some relief, but it was still a pretty consistent hot.  I put in my head, &#8220;Just log the miles,&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about time.&#8221;  To wit, I had some 9-minute miles in the mix.  Here are my details from today&#8217;s run:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/35804096'><\/iframe><br \/>\nOf course, being Saturday, I listened to NPR&#8217;s <em>On the Media<\/em> for the first loop of Central Park, and I&#8217;m starting to think there&#8217;s something to the hypothesis that listening to that program really slows me down because almost as soon as it stopped, I started to go fast.  Granted, this was right about the completion of mile 6, at which point I had just consumed a PowerGel, and at which point I was stopping at a water fountain.  Those two factors could also have contributed to my jettison (coupled with the dance song &#8220;Girls&#8221; that had just come on) rather than the stop of talk radio, but after having a few long runs with slower first loops, the &#8220;On the Media Hypothesis&#8221; is starting to develop data toward making it the &#8220;On the Media Theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something really great to share from today&#8217;s run: I didn&#8217;t have shin pain!  It seems the pain that was prominent in the medial area of my right lower leg was diminished.  A couple days ago I iced it when going to bed, and I&#8217;ve had two days of running rest because of work conflicts.  No physical problems to report in today&#8217;s run other than I just was not about to put on afterburners in this heat at this time of day (3:30pm-ish).  I&#8217;m also carrying 2-3 lbs. of more weight than I really want right now.  I think it came as a combination of having a lot of protein from Naked Juice Protein Zone consumption plus weights, but maybe also because of caloric coconut water, which I was drinking like, um, an animal that can&#8217;t get his fix of coconut water.  Today&#8217;s run I stopped frequently at water fountains, which helped me stay hydrated over the run as well as performing, though I started to get shivers toward the very end in the last mile, presumably because I was dehydrated.<\/p>\n<p>I did get a bit faster in the second loop again.  Part of that was desire, part of that was competitive spirit that turned on when I saw some rivals I could pick off (I picked them both off, but one overcame me bigtime), and part of that was confidence because I&#8217;d just completed one loop and was familiar with the weather.<\/p>\n<p>So I got in my long run for this week!  Slow, but I was seeming to recall I wasn&#8217;t big on time in June last year.  I hope that was the case, but I&#8217;m trying less to care about time now and just care about <em>logging miles<\/em>.  The hope is that I&#8217;ll get faster without paying too much attention to time.<\/p>\n<p>And only a PowerGel before the run, other than some fat-free plain yogurt with granola, agave nectar, and cinnamon.  I had that yogurt concoction after my run, too, as well as some chocolate milk and water.  I&#8217;m nursing a green tea as I write this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! I was really procrastinating doing today&#8217;s long run. It was 90 degrees when I finally decided to roll out of bed, and my run was in solid 87-degree weather with a 45% humidity. The sun was out but there were clouds making for some relief, but it was still a pretty consistent hot. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/05\/the-heat-is-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Heat Is On!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}