Right as I was coming inside, I noticed "squishy shoes" for the first time this year. After my workout, I jogged to the shade of the soft surface trail before resting, and when I did, I felt like I was just glowing with heat. After cold ice water, a cold shower, a cold breakfast, standing in front of cold AC, it has still taken a couple of hours to feel my body temp come back down. My workout today was the same thing I did on 8/13/25- 3 Falcon Heights blocks of 3:3, 2:2, 1:1 float:hard, always starting on float. I ran 10:23, 10:27, and 10:36. That makes for 5:26 pace overall, 5 seconds slower than I ran last year. I was dissapointed to see that, as well as to have run so much slower on the last rep when I actually spent more time running "on" than the other two laps. It may be a combination of dehydration and heat getting to me, as well as what I've noticed this year is a lack of endurance in workouts. This was the last major workout before a possible race, so I will go in with less confidence than I would have liked to have had.
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