AM - Met-up at Bloomington park with the some of the RT Girlz this morning and drove-up to Mavirik on Washington Prkwy for a tempo. I'm beginning to think my body really does not perform well in humidity. I sweat so much anyway, so when it's humid I just feel like I'm dying. The same thing happened when I ran the Ojia Marathon in CA last year. I just start feeling like I'm working like a horse. Anyways here's how it went down. I ended up starting about 1 mile past where I started last year.
SKIP, 5:41, 5:43, 5:49, 5:56, 6:03, 5:57, 5:54 - today
5:45, 5:38, 5:44, 5:46, 5:49, 5:51, 5:49, 5:47, 5:49, (.3) 5:46 - 2012
I was really quite upset about my times. I did 2 miles less from last year and my paces were way off. It could be the humidity or I could be worn down - possibly both. Hopefully I'm not in worse shape.
Anyways, I stopped at the Confluence Trailhead got some water, saw Scott H., chatted with him and squeezed all the sweat out of my shorts. About the time I was taking off to finish the run Amber G. came up the trail and stopped for a drink. She was 4'ish miles into her tempo since the girls did more of a warm-up. I ended up finishing off the last 1.5 miles of her tempo with her. She was able to hammer out a 5:40, 5:43 (.50 miles) - Thank goodness I didn't get dropped.
Happy to have the workout done. I'll probably go out a little later on and get in a few more.
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