Last Thursday, I biked for 10 miles, up one really major hill and up a bunch of moderate hills. I think it really tired out my legs =P They weren’t sore, but they definitely felt very tired. When I tried to go out for my tempo last night, I could feel it in my legs. I didn’t have a chance to see if I could get over that tiredness yesterday because my precious Garmin ran out of batteries 1 mile into my run >=[ So, I ended up going back home.
This morning, I woke up at 7:30 for my tempo. I didn’t get to the trail until around 8:30 (had to walk and feed the boys first).
It was pretty warm out when I started already. There was cloud cover but I could feel the sun directly beating down on me already. Since I do most of my runs in the evenings, I’m not really used to things starting out cool and progressively getting warmer. I’m used to things starting out somewhat warm and cooling off significantly. I may have to start running in the mornings from now on, at least for my long runs.
Anyway, it was a hard run. My legs still felt tired. But I managed to do the run anyway.
Warm Up: 0.47 mile in 5:12
Split 1: 10:28
Split 2: 10:46
Split 3: 10:48
Total Time: 32:04
Average Pace: 10:41
Calories Burned: 428
Shoes: Asics Nimbus
My goal was to hit 10:45 a mile. The last two miles are a few seconds over my time limit, but my average pace was still under my time limit. So, YAY!!! Definitely one of the hottest runs I’ve done. Hopefully, October won’t be that hot!
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August 24th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Good work! I had a really hot run the other day too. I did a six miler and the first 2 miles were through a residential area with trees galore but when I turned out onto this REALLY busy street and changed directions for the next two miles there wasn’t a single tree and the sun was scorching right down on my back. Luckily the last two miles were back through residential areas but by that time the sun had sucked out my will to live!
Nice work on the bike ride, too. Once you strengthen your upper leg muscles, your knees will thank you in the long “run” – pun intended.