AM: (9 miles, 1:15:05). 27:04wu/26:42cd 11 x 200m w/200 recovery. Greg said to do 10-15, I wanted to do 15 but it was 94F and sunny with 10 mph winds... it was painfully hot. I meant to do 12 (as a compromise) but somehow I must have miscounted. The 3 miles uphill home was almost indescribably miserable. It really is a tough climb under the best of circumstances, and when it is this hot it is even worse. Dean always says, "you just can't be in a hurry". So, my body and mind were at odds. My body knew that I was bordering on dangerously overheating, but my mind wanted to get out of the sun so badly. So I would speed up and then feel sick to my stomach and slow down ... and this coupled with the fact I wanted to try to find a saguaro cactus or telephone pole to stand in its shade made it a not very fun run. When I looked over my splits I realized in part it was because I did not slow down enough on my recovery bits. My splits ranged from 46-50 and then :59-1:06 for the recovery (with most of the splits at :49/1:02 -- almost 6 of them!). I thought that starting at one end of the track would be better (because of the wind, but the first 2 laps -- which were the :50s by the way -- were really tough with a headwind down the back stretch; I realized that starting into the wind around the curve was easier, so I started in a different spot after the second one). I am very glad this run is over -- and that I won't be running in this kind of heat for 4 weeks! By the way, this was at 7AM!! we overslept (the alarm did not go off this morning) -- it was already 88F at 6AM when I jumped out of bed all freaked out. PM: (4 miles easy). Have to go work on my grant a little and this afternoon we have to close up our house, get things packed and get ready to go to Flagstaff tomorrow!! We wanted to leave today, but we have things to do and it is way to hot to be starting out after about 9AM. There are a lot of mountains to climb and you can't usually run your air conditioner when you climb them, last year it was about 116 and we had the dogs and they had a rough time in the heat. So .... we will get an early start tomorrow instead. YIPPPEE. I hope you are all having a wonderful start of the fiscal year ;-). We have to pick the days we are taking for our furlough ... I am going to be making a political statement, I hope I don't get fired.
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