Very difficult run tonight. To start with the conditions were tough -- 75 degrees and 90% humidity at the start of the run (9pm). Additionally, I just don't do well in the summer, especially when its humid, if I haven't had 4-5 hours to digest dinner. Tonight's run was 3.5 hours afterwards. I should have been good, but I was dealing with some GI issues from miles 4 to the finish causing some rough cramping and such. At mile 8 I began to feel a touch humidity sick. At mile 9 I wanted to stop and rest for a touch, but I knew if I did I'd never get going again and I was 2 miles from the house still. I muscled through mile 9 and was going to alter my route (originally I had planned to do 12) and walk the last mile, but when I got through 10 miles I decided to try to gut it out to within .5 miles of my house. When I got there I gutted it out to the finish. I noticed something in addition to all the issues that were going on. When a fat-burn run starts to get tough I have a tendency to want to speed up. It dawned on me tonight that this is probably my bodies response to the fat burning, begging me to bump into carb burning. All in all, I was able to grind out a few more miles than I thought I was going to be capable of at mile 8. Glad its over and tomorrow is an 8 miler.
Fat-burn splits: 11 miles in 1:27:01 (7:54s) -- 8:20, 7:46, 7:58, 7:45, 7:54, 7:47, 7:56, 7:46, 7:49, 7:51, 8:04 | 