You know you're old when... it's 11:30 p.m. on a Saturday night and you're blogging instead of whooping it up at the bar. :)
JP and I had a late dinner and ran home to drop off the leftovers before heading out to the bar with some friends. But... our friends are still at their first stop and JP is asleep on the couch and I'm blogging. We may be boring, but we're okay with it. :)
Okay... getting to the hot and humid runs so far this weekend.
Thursday was a kick-butt half mile repeat workout. It was 90-degrees at 7 p.m. and the humidity was insane. I was going to grab the trusty fuel belt just so I didn't wilt away, but decided against it since there are drinking fountains at the track.
Ran approximately 1 mile to the track and went to grab a quick sip of water. Doh! They already turned off the water!! Powered on and ran some decent repeats:
1: 4:20
2: 4:17
3: 4:00
4: 4:11
I'm not sure how true the coorelation is between average half mile repeats and the average marathon time, but I'm going to train accordingly. Gotta get those repeats down sub 4:00!
This morning, I started my run at 6:30 a.m. in order to avoid some of the heat and humidity. The sun wasn't out, but the humidity was still pretty bad. Again, not super speedy, but I keep telling myself long runs are suppose to be 60-90 seconds slower than marathon pace.
Mile 1: 10:36
Mile 2: 10:05
Mile 3: 9:57
Mile 4: 10:07
Mile 5: 13:17 (they're remarking the path and are obviously off a bit here...)
Mile 6: 10:11
Mile 7: 10:14
Mile 8: 10:03
I was soaked in sweat when I was finished. Wasn't completely spent, but I was glad it was a shorter run this week.
Well, gotta get going to either get ready for the bar OR go to bed so I can get up early and head to the gym before church. I think sleep is going to win this battle... :)
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That humidity is the worst! I feel myself dragging now that the temps are high and humidity is at a steady 90% all the time. But we got to keep pushing through, right?
Looks like the running is going well and you are kicking some butt. As for the bar, I notice BJ and I are usually home from the bar and ready for bed at about the same time I used to be getting ready to go out to the bar back in the college days. Time catches up, doesn't it.
But at the time you were blogging instead of going out, I was SLEEPING! I think that makes me 100 years older than you!
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