Long time, no post. I spent last week in Hawaii on a family vacation. I was so looking forward to running there, in WARM weather! However, I had forgotten about the humidity. While walking around on the beach in the afternoon is pleasant enough, running in the mid-day heat and humidity is something else. Especially when you're coming from Philly weather. My first run, which was about 5.5 miles, was OK until I hit the halfway point. Then I started to feel not so good. Unfortunately I didn't have my cell phone with me, didn't know anyone else's cell phone number by heart, and had no idea what the address was of the house that we were staying at. So I had no choice but to press on and hope that I didn't collapse on the side of the road. I made it back to the house alright but I proceeded to immediately jump in the pool, clothes and all. After that I took better precautions to drink more water and run earlier in the day when it was cooler.
Even given the rough start to my running adventures in Hawaii, it still beats running in the PA cold, hands down. The weather here is improving... slowly. On Monday I was able to trade in my long-sleeved fleece for a T-shirt but today the fleece was back again. And today it was windy! I run a roughly rectangular route around campus and I swear that a third of that route had me running straight into the wind today while absolutely none of it had the wind at my back. How is that even possible? And a few of the gusts actually knocked me off course! Of course, if you know anything about how tall I am this is not so impressive. Anyway, I'm missing the Hawaii weather.
My race is now 6 weeks away. My long run is up to 7 miles. I'd really like to break a 9-minute mile pace for this race. On my good days I do that on my short runs (5 miles and under) but I don't know if I can keep it up for 10 miles. Time will tell, I guess. It helps that the course is flat to slightly downhill. As long as I come in under 9:30 I'll be happy.
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