91 degrees was the temperature when I returned home from my run today. Even though I took a frozen sports drink in my handy-dandy plastic bottle, it wasn't enough. I was going to run for 6 miles and do 2-3-4-3-2 fartleks. Instead I ran 5 miles and did 2-3 fartleks. Ugh. The "feels like" temperature was 97 degrees. Walked for about six minutes in there at about mile four. Should have been smart enough to just stay home. But at least I didn't press it and so I live to run another day.
I learned that I need to change some settings when I create a workout on the Garmin. I put in an expected pace for each part of the fartleks, and I found that the Garmin beeps at you every 15 seconds or so if you're not in the right zone for that part of the run. Yeah, I'm not going to keep doing that. Especially after I pooped out and walked and then ran slow the rest of the way home. Let's just say the constant beeping was annoying. I know I could have pressed the lap button and proceeded to the "cooldown" phase of the workout, but my overheated brain didn't quite catch that concept. Guess I'm still learning.
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