That's how today's run pretty much went. It was 94 degrees outside when I left the house and very sunny, but I had things to do tonight and didn't want to run late. By this time in the year I'm fairly acclimated to the temperature and know enough to take it slow. However, today's schedule called for speedwork in the form of hill repeats. Not an easy task to undertake with a heat index over 100. I'm stupid enough to give it a try, though.
The smart part comes in at this point. I was going to run on my regular hill of horror, a section of what the kids call Lungdropper Hill. There's no shade anywhere in the vicinity of that area and I knew better than to try it. I ran part of my regular route down Shoal Creek and then spent some time doing the repeats in the shady area along the sidewalk. I ran six short repeats. Even though I backed off and walked a couple of times on the way back down the hill it was torture.
The stupid part at the end was the fact that I left myself a 'cooldown' of over a mile to get home. I walked up the big hill right before the traffic circle because hey, I'm stupid but not that stupid. In all I ended up going 5.25 miles and getting in my repeats. The air-conditioned house sure felt good when I got home and saw that the temp was still 93 degrees. Looks like the next day of running should be about ten degrees cooler. We can only hope.
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