{"id":339,"date":"2010-06-11T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-06-11T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:18:48","slug":"peeling-back-the-temperature-rind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/11\/peeling-back-the-temperature-rind\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeling Back the Temperature Rind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. What a difference temperature (and humidity) makes. This morning I busted out a long run after a hiatus this week. I did 12.31 miles in 1:32:20, which means I averaged 7:29s. The weather started out a cool 64 and heated to a 66 with slight humidity.<\/p>\n<p>Compare this morning&#8217;s performance to a couple other performances. Last Saturday in 87-degree weather I did 8:26s. A couple weeks earlier I did this distance in 7:51s in comparable weather to today. Between the two weeks I did 14.02 miles in 8:07s in humid 72ish-degree weather.<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/36471664'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI also wonder what the introduction of fish oil into my supplementation means. I heard that it was good for endurance athletes. I wonder if it made my heart pump better in this run. I doubt that fish oil is the main reason I did so well today, but I wonder how much of a reason it may have been.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever contributed to today, there&#8217;s little doubt that the cooler weather played a factor. After last week&#8217;s heat, it was nice to find out that I wasn&#8217;t going down in performance but instead going down in the weather, which meant I was conditioning for better conditions. What&#8217;s even better about today&#8217;s results is that I was pretty steady throughout the run. Don&#8217;t look at the laps for miles because I inadvertently hit a button on my Garmin and triggered an early lap. My first mile was fast (7:05) yet comfortable, and while my speed decreased a bit from there, I didn&#8217;t lose too much speed. For most of the run I was running sub-7:30s. Of course, that&#8217;s not all that impressive, but for now, I think that&#8217;s making me feel a little better about myself.<\/p>\n<p>For this run, I had just a PowerGel before the run. I carbo-loaded with Oglio &amp; Aglio with Chicken last night. And a Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s. Damn the Cinnamon Buns flavor!<\/p>\n<p>As for injuries, my right lower leg medially again felt sensitive, but consistent with other runs, it was fine after I got into my run. For about the first couple miles, though, it felt a little unstable, the kind of unstable that made me wonder if my leg was going to &#8220;fail&#8221; on me. But it didn&#8217;t. While there weren&#8217;t a lot of people in the park this morning, no one passed me. That&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a bit better about my fitness right now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>P.S. After the run, I hit the gym for abs, arms, shoulders, pecs, quads, and calves. Also of note: New photos from my Japan Day race are on the <a href=\"photos\">Photos<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. What a difference temperature (and humidity) makes. This morning I busted out a long run after a hiatus this week. I did 12.31 miles in 1:32:20, which means I averaged 7:29s. The weather started out a cool 64 and heated to a 66 with slight humidity. Compare this morning&#8217;s performance to a couple other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/06\/11\/peeling-back-the-temperature-rind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peeling Back the Temperature Rind<\/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-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}