Today we are under an "excess heat" advisory (that means too hot to think, let alone do anything else), so I was prompted to do the unthinkable and rise at 5:30am to get in my run before the heat set in and became too dangerous to run. Who was I kidding? It was hot at that time of day too...83 degrees at 5:30am! Are you kidding me!?!?! Well, it was better than the 90 degrees at 9pm last night, right?
The answer would be no. Add in the humidity and I could barely get my legs to move. It was oppressive, sticky, icky (what other words can I add in here to adequately describe the weather this morning). But, I needed to run regardless. So I headed in the general direction of Sandy Point State Park to try to hit five miles without wilting. Getting my body to put one foot in front of another was a challenge. This was not a pretty run. (And oh by the way, while the dead deer from last week may be gone the smell is not...ugh).
At any rate, I can feel accomplished that I put this one on the books, after all, I got up at 5:30am (I hate doing that for a run), I hit the goal for distance (which didn't look particularly feasible at the outside) and I did not sweat so hard as to flood the road. I see ever so slightly cooler temperatures coming in tomorrow, maybe they won't be as bad. Happy trails!!!
Stats -
Miles: 5.15
Time: 46:04 (average pace of 8:56 per mile)
Location: Bay Head, Sandy Point State Park
Feeling: Not quite like death, but I imagine pretty close
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