I Earned That Six Miles

The temperature when I got home from the run was 92 degrees, according to Yahoo! weather. The 'feels like' temperature was 97. That was at 7 p.m., and I'm not sure the temperature had gone down any since when I started the run an hour earlier. I took the water bottle with me and used probably half of it on my head. These runs wouldn't be so bad except for the neighborhood. And I don't mean the neighborhood itself is bad, but as I've lamented before, we just don't have any shade. It took a full 3.5 miles on today's route before I hit some shade, and then the last mile was in the direct sunlight again. I think that's what wears a person down more than anything. If I had more consistent shade on the run it would have been a lot easier. Today was 'only' six miles, and even though I deliberately kept the pace slow, it sure felt like more.