Didn't feel like running early this morning despite knowing today was going to be hot in the afternoon. It was.
Started my run at 5:30 when it was 85 degrees. Not very smart but I did take a couple of bottles of water with me. Just for fun I weighed myself before just to see how much weight I would lose in the process.
The workout was 6M@5:40 + 1M@5:15 or so. My coach told me that it would sound and even feel easy but that I was still recovering from Saturday's race and by the end of the workout, i would be feeling it.
So I did the workout along RR Days 5k route, doing two laps of it plus adding a mile at the end. Miles 1 and 2 were in 5:30. Oops. I really tried to slow down but was ineffective in doing so. I felt great I just knew with the heat I would probably regret it. Mile 3...5:32. Mile 4 5:30. Mile 5 I really made an effort to slow it down. The result: 5:28. OK, so I'm a sucky pacer at 5:40. Mile 6 was different. I was starting to feel the effects of the heat and landed at 5:40...right where I was supposed to be. So the last mile was exhausting. Ended up witha 5:20. It was pretty much all I had left.
The jog home was humbling. I was very dehydrated despite drinking 34 ounces of water during the span of the 11 miles to that point.
When I got home, I weighed myself...I had lost 5.5 not including the pound of water I consumed during the run. So in 90 minutes or so of running, I lost 6.5 pounds, almost all of it water. That's a gallon jug of water lost. Yikes. | 