Gonna have to find a loop near my apt in nashville with some more dirt. This loop has about 3/4 miles dirt and probably 7 of grass if you care enough, but the grass is tall and in bunches that are hard to run on. I will probably drive the 3.5 miles to percy warner park and do the 8 mile horse trail most of the time.
Heat index = 100 I took 24oz of nuun and drank it by 5 miles where I refilled at a water fountain (a redeeming feature of this route) not to drink but to poor over my head on the last 3.6 miles. I was happy with how I felt in the heat. I definitely can do easy runs in this kind of heat. But Im afraid that tempo runs and even good interval sessions are gonna have to be done on a treadmill or on the indoor track. I will experiment with long runs in the heat (which I have had problems with in the past but I was also in much worse shape then) later this week but probably in the morning in 80-85 degree weather instead of 100. | 