I still don't have a workout schedule, so I decided to brave
the heat and do 2 min on/1 min off x 12. It was not hard pace wise, just
the sun was so brutal. I ran on the Ma On Shan side to get as much shade
as I could. The hard stuff was probably about a 1/3 shaded? Anyway,
I did ok for the first four (paces were 3:25, 3:38, 3:38, 3:35) and got water
after #4, but on the fifth I had to go up this hill (past the cool drinking
fountain) and I just quit in the middle of that interval. I jogged to the top
of the hill and started #6 at the top of it to try to help me regroup. 3:41
pace for this one, not stellar but back in the game, after a
minute’s rest, did #6 in 3:44 pace, then took 1.5 min rest after fast bits from
here on, then #7 in 3:46 pace, #8 in 3:46, took one off, then decided to try
again: #9 in 3:45, then #10 in 3:52 (seemed like a better effort than
that). So I scraped together 10.5
intervals. Seriously, this was so
hard. And it is rather demoralizing. I don’t know how I will get through five
months of this with my fitness intact L This is worse than Utah winters. You can bundle up in the winter, use two hand warmers per hand (I did this often), but you can’t
take off enough clothes to overcome the humidity. 20k total, near delirious by
the finish.
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