Friday, June 29, 2012

Tough and a little stupid

When you get the itch to run, you gotta run! I really missed not running yesterday even though it was stupid hot.  So I super hydrated this afternoon before I left work, and I took my two new sports bottles filled with ice cubes and cold water.  And another half-frozen 20 oz. bottle of water and a half-frozen bottle of Gatorade.
Here's the weather now when I got to the parking lot at the trail head to start my run:

There was some good cloud cover when I got out of the truck, that made it cooler, but look at the radar map:

Yes, those are nasty storms headed my way.  And here is the weather now when I finished:

Too bad the wind doesn't show gusts, I had a big one hit me right in the middle of the run.  I was next to a few large trees, one large branch broke in the wind but didn't fall down right away.  But the snapping sound was incredible.  I thought for sure a tree was going to fall on me.  Every wind gust after that had me looking up for falling tree limbs.  Overall, not a bad run.  I made sure to run super slow so I didn't overheat and I didn't.  I was surprised to see how even my pace was, considering I only walked up the one hill.  Drinking every 1/2 mile helped too.  By the time I got to mile 4, all of my ice cubes had melted and the water was warm.  (I carried the two sports bottles the whole time I ran.  Made my shoulders very tight).  Anyway, a triumph for toughness.  If I feel like bragging, I can say I ran in 100 F heat this summer.  But, in reality, it was somewhere between 91 and 100 F with plenty of cloud cover.  Still plenty hot.  Oh- and when I finished running I saw that I had a weather alert email- it was a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the storm that blew through with the big wind gusts.  Very little rain though. 



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