Over 90 degrees, humidity over 70%, sunny, hot, humid, sticky, nasty, foul, abusive, no good, St Louis summer day. Planned on doing 3 x 3miles easy with a drink and a cool off every loop. On the second loop the humidity simply took over. I was able to do each loop in a progressive fashion averaging 8:03s on the first loop and 7:42s on the 2nd loop. Had I backed off the pace a bit on the 2nd loop I probably could have finished it, cooled off and given consideration to a 3rd loop. As it was at the 5 mile mark I decided to finish with .5 hard (sub 7:00s) and walk the last .5 in. | 