Summer ain't over yet. It was right at 90 degrees this afternoon with abundant sunshine. The plan called for 2-3-4-3-2 fartleks, meaning I needed my trusty Garmin sidekick to tell me when to speed and slow down and such. I left the house with my water bottle and realized halfway down the hill that I'd forgotten said Garmin. I walked back, strapped it on my right wrist and started running once I got off the driveway. With the heat I knew I needed to dial back the "speed" part of the run. Accordingly I tried to keep the intervals at a 9-minute/mile pace. Even so I walked a couple of times, once before the last interval and another as I was in the cooldown. I'll be interested to see how it looks on the heart monitor chart right before I started walking. I was nowhere near close to really overheating or anything, but it did seem like the smart thing to do. And limiting my speed worked out okay, too.
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