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tuesday

- tempo
-- warm up
-- 2x 10 min @ HM pace (2.3 km, 0.9 km)
-- cool down
so hot, only made it a bit over 4 mins into the second rep and just did not feel like a good idea to push through. when it's this hot and humid out i need to either dial back intensity or duration.


yesterday

- run 1:09, 11.23 km
T+DI 160 but felt fine. i think the crash on the weekend long run had as much to do with calories and, to a lesser extent, fluids as the heat. got to just start bringing more food and water with me on those.

- run 2:19, 22.08 km
T+DI 160+ but it's partly cloudy so at least we didn't have much direct sunlight to deal with. ate two cereal bars and drank a small gatorade (and some water) and was thirsty by the end but never crashed like last week. legs tired now but not too bad. we hit 14 miles short of home and walked the rest of the way.

definitely a PR for weekly volume, 69 km (nice).

- tempo
-- warm up
-- 15 min, 10 min @ HM pace (3.51 km, 2.34 km)
-- cool down
T+DI 147, pretty hot but less humid. kicked up the intensity on the intervals, average pace was around 4:16 for the first one and 4:18 for the second. that's down closer to sub-1:30 HM pace (4:15). bit by bit.

- run 2:34, 23.95 km
T+DI 157 but that is all in the humidity. felt fine until the last mile and a half or so and then it was a struggle. but i did finish, so there's that. ate 2.75 cereal bars and drank 500mL of lemonade with a half teaspoon of salt mixed in. should be about 550 calories, which i guess is not enough. stomach was a little something also right in the final couple km, not sure what that was about. i hadn't eaten any of the bars recently by that point, i think i tolerate them well.

i am tired!

- run 41:14, 8.08 km
T+DI 152, less humid. ran alone, so, much quicker than w/ fiancée: 5:06, right back in my normal steady pace range. she's adjusted her schedule a bit since she has work travel coming up, so she did tempo tonight.

- gardening x 2.5 hours
dug up two small trees and pulled a LOT of weeds. still planning to run later since i ended up with a lighter week than i was supposed to have.

- run 59:10, 11.25 km
waited until later. still humid but not so hot, felt good. ran alone so quicker.

- run 54:07, 10.01 km
had to finish at grocery store and my flipbelt is nasty so ran with the backpack. makes me much hotter! also it's hot and humid today, T+DI 162.

tomorrow and friday are going to be exceptionally hot. will monitor wetbulb temperature and make a game-time decision whether or not to skip for safety reasons.