Today was a 5km run. Quite easy relative to the 16km run on Saturday night. It was also a mild 16.5C this morning. Little wind, fresh … ideal!
At about 3:30am I woke up with a sore back and took some painkillers. I was in la-la land around 5:30 when I was supposed to get up and run. It was one of those “I’ll get up in a minute” mornings.
I didn’t! So what follows is my own fault …
If I had got up, run the 5ks it would have been over. And I have no excuse. My runs lately have been great. Long, slow and all completed at a good pace.
I decided I would run today, even though I missed this morning. I’ll run a little while after dinner when the heat has gone out of the day. (Perth hit around 36C today).
So, around 7:30pm I kitted up and headed out. Still quite balmy and, as I checked my iPhone weather app it was, in fact, 34C!
At 7:30pm … 34C!!! (Aww crap!)
I decided the iPhone was wrong and I would run in what was probably more like 24 – 26. Still warm but cooling down.
As I began to run and although this was only 5k, I was feeling it. But true to form, I kept running. No walking for me. I can do this. Calves sore, thighs aching, sweating like a pig (no offense to any pigs reading this!) I’ll run through any pain. It’s only 5k.
Well, I’m happy to say I completed the run (stats below) but I then checked the temperature at the end of the run and, lo and behold, 32C! I got inside and checked the PC Google temperature for Perth – 30C!
I had run 5k in what was around 32 – 33C! No wonder I was dripping. My Slowgeek Run graph is below:
Slowgeek Run Data
Nike+: 5.55k @ 33:18 = 5.59/km
Garmin: 5.04k @ 32:50 = 6.31/km
Anyway, I hope I have dramatized that enough for you 
Just glad I persevered. Of course it creates the problem that I probably won’t run first thing in the morning and I am meant to run 8k tomorrow. If I don’t do it in the morning, it’ll be in the heat of the day … again.
Might just have to bite the bullet and get up earlier! 
In Other News Just to Hand …
BIG CONGRATS to Andrew who completed the 100 Push Ups Challenge yesterday. After starting the program 7 times he got there in the end. Great job! And it shows what focus and perseverance can do.
