They all can't be "easy" runs.

Venetian Waterway Park. 5:45 am start. 81 deg., 88% hum., 77 d.p. I am having a hard time figuring out when to run in this summer weather pattern. Yesterday there were 10 straight hours of the day where it was "feels like" 99 degrees. I have been running in Florida summers for a long time, but this year feels more difficult, and fairly dangerous. I started today before dawn. But that is when the humidity and dew point are the worst. It's not a better answer, just different. 

0.9 up, 2 @ 15:16, 1 easy (+ 0.65 out and back, desperately sprinting to an emergency bathroom stop, where I barely made it), 2 @ 17:32, 0.9 down. 

1.65 mile North Bridge Loop, then 5 miles on the West Venetian Waterway Park. Then 1.65 mile North Bridge Loop. 8 am start. 90 deg., 83% hum., 76 d.p. No breeze for the first 3 miles. Slight breeze after that. I'm just trying to survive these runs right now. I pushed the pace on the uphills, but the rest of the run was slow pace. We are supposed to get some slight relief on Thursday. 

Venetian Waterway Park. 7 am start. 77 deg., 89% hum., 73 d.p. What a difference the temperature change made! I was starting to think I was doomed to run in Mother Nature's flatulence for the next 3 months. I have put on wet shoes for the last week. Yesterday, I wrung out my socks after the run, and made a puddle. Today, I could not. I just have to continue taking what the day gives me.  

1.8 up with bathroom stop (my usual up x2, because I really wanted to make sure I wouldn't have another emergency bathroom stop, like Monday. Those moments can leave you with PTSD), 2 @ 14:43, 1 easy, 2 @ 14:27, 0.9 down. 

I'm super psyched about this run. 

8 am start. 2 to the boys and girls club track. 400m easy. 400m in 1:24. 400m easy. 400m in 1:28. 2 miles home. I was planning on 4x400m, but there is a group of  people with cognitive disabilities that are in a school in the building near the track. They were guided to the track in the middle of the second rep. So I was kind of slaloming through these folks on the second 400m. So I decided to go home. I've been running on this track for about 15 years. This was a first. I think Track Thursdays are going to replace the 100m+ grass sprint Thrusdays, at least for a while. I can't run in the woods with no breeeze right now. I'll get back there someday, I guess. 

hood route at noon.

PM: 4 games of pickleball with my brother and some friends from the 1990's. My brother has really got into pickleballs lately, and he is looking to make this our thing. I'm not really feeling it. But I do like hanging out with these people.  

16.25 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Circus Bridge and back. I really struggled on the way back.

1.65 mile North Bridge Loop X 2, then 5 miles on the West Venetian Waterway Park. 7:30 pm start. Sun was down by finish. I did the hill stuff today because I realized too late that I forgot my watch. I'm thinking about changing this workout to just the 1.65 hilly part over and over. Or maybe run up and down the same portion of bridge X10, with some warm up and cool down. 

Venetian Waterway Park. 8 am start. 76 deg., 88% hum., 72 d.p.

0.9 up, 2 @ 15:06, 1 easy, 2 @ 14:50, 0.9 down. 

West Venetian Waterway Park. 4:30 pm. I was trying to catch a run in the rain, and I missed it. Instead I got "feels like" 97. 

1.2 up. 2 miles @ 15:37. Then surviving 3 miles. Then 0.9 down. 

I don't know why I keep trying to run in full sun right now. I need to have some discipline to get up before dawn, or just let myself wait until near sunset. There should be no more running for me between 9 am and 5 pm. But I'm dumb enough to try it again, probably tomorrow. 

7 am start. 2 miles to the track. (4) x 400m, w/ 400m AR, 1:31, 1:30, 1:29, 1:25, 2 miles home. 

Hood route to Legacy Trail over the SWOM Bridge and back. 8 miles. 6:30 am start. 84 deg. 86% hum, 77 d.p. I came home soaked. Wrung out my shirt and socks. Really, after the first mile, I kind of settled into something slow, but that I could maintain. Tomorrow's long run will be different. I know that my toes will be pruned by 10 miles. 

16.25 Miles. Hood Route to Legacy Trail to Circus Bridge and Back. 2:47:22 (10:18 pace, really even pace). 7 am start. 84 deg., 98% hum., 76 d.p. at the start. 89 deg., 65% hum., 75 d.p. at the start.