Heh - this morning at 11 I looked at the weather for the day and decided that since it was at the coolest point it was going to be until it got dark, that it would make sense for me to go for my run. Never mind that I hadn’t eaten anything all day, or that the sun was pounding overhead… My schedule said that I should run six 1km repeats, with 60 seconds recovery, so that’s what I set out to do.

I got dressed, headed out, and ran the first 1k in 4:35. My HR was about 160 at the end of it - not too bad. It was getting pretty hot though, I realized that I’d been weaving a little trying to run into shady spots, and that I’d been breathing pretty solidly (although not too bad). The second 1k took 4:38, which is good considering that my last set of repeats were taking me 4:40-4:50 each (after a warmup and drills, but still). Come to think of it, these two were both done on gentle hills with a mixed (asphalt/gravel) surface, and the others were done on the track.

When the second one was over and I pulled up to stop, I felt a little faint. All of a sudden, the sun felt really hot. About then I realized that I hadn’t had much to drink since about 7pm yesterday either. Did you see the title of this post? Yeah. Anyway, I went ahead and called it at that point - I’ll redo the run this evening, or tomorrow, or something.

Some days, I’m just not running on all cylinders.

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