Training Log Archive: hmklaff

Late-afternoon walk. Tried to keep it a little brisk by throwing in a bit of running.

Up and down NE ridge. So great to be back up in the Sawatch! Snow on the route was much more manageable than I had anticipated, which got me really excited for all the great running to be done this summer. Windshirt was sufficient on the summit. . . . Oh, wait, that's TK's running life. Mine: Around the park and back. Not really all that great! Humidity on the route was unmanageable, which got me really dreading the rest of the summer. No shirt was insufficient. Middle 3 miles consisted of 5 min. pick ups (maybe 7:20-7:25 pace) with 1-min cool down between each. Not a brutal pace or anything, but definitely not "all-day" pace either.

Sick of the heat, mostly. But my stomach was squirrely, so this one goes down as a zero.

Hermann-Rice short. By the time I got out the door - 9:00 - it was already ghastly hot. So I dialed it back and focused on a sustainable pace for the conditions. Managed just fine. Certainly wasn't a comfortable run, but I never flirted with a heat bonk either.