July 7, 2012, 9 Hot Ones

i tried putting this run off as long as i could today because it was so hot. when i left the house at 7pm it was 93 degrees with a heat index of 102. by mile 2.5 i could tell it was really hot. an area around mile 1.5 and 2.5 miles that is usually pretty cool on my afternoon runs was extremely warm, it felt like heat was coming up out of the creek. my legs felt really tired and i was already wanting to walk by mile 3. at mile 4 i decided i would walk at each mile to cool a little and get a little gatorade. that kept my pace at about the same per mile for the last 5 miles as for mile 4. it also felt a lot easier. i finished the 9 miles in 1:40.56, a pace of 11:13. that is quite a bit faster than my pace on the 13.1 miles last saturday. on this run i lost 4 pounds during the run. i felt pretty good after this run, not like last week. it was 83 degrees when i finished with a heat index of 92. thought of the day: while running this run i started looking ahead to next week's scheduled run of 15 miles. i started dreading it thinking of having to run in this heat and having to start the run much earlier to try to finish close to dark, knowing i have 6 more miles to run than i ran today. i hope it cools down a little.