Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

Well, I eventually made it here. It was 115 when I got off the plane in Baghdad...ouch.  The low tonight is 91.  So I sought out the gym and did 5 ez on the treadmill @ 7mph (8:34 pace).  Didn't feel too bad considering the lack of sleep I've gotten the past few days.  I guess I'll be makng friends with the cardio room; they can't cool it down quite enough, but it beats running outside for now.  I only hope I can stomach longer distances on it - I think the 5 today was a record for me but I'd like to eventually do 7 or 8 a day until I can start running outside in a couple months.

Just 4 miles in the torture chamber today - I cut it short.  The treadmill I was using instantly felt faster at 7.0 but it could be my imagination.  I even slowed down to 6.5 for the last mile.  Felt brutal the whole time...I need to run outside - is it October yet?  If I have the same problem on a different TM, I guess I'm gonna have to slow it down to get in the miles.  To make sure I don't cut my run short tomorrow, I will declare here, for the record, that I will do a full 6 tomorrow.

I did 1@ 6.8, 1@ 6.9, 3@ 7.0, 1@ 7.2.  AP somewhere in the 8:30s.  The running gods were even conspiring against me - the treadmill I was using kept going to cool down mode by itself in mile 4.  I finaly had to hit stop and start it from scratch to make it hold speed.  Now I'm pretty sure I just got a fast TM yesterday unless I was really having a bad day.  Now if I could find one that's accurate and can last more than 30 minutes...