The weather has been getting gradually warmer and alot more humid, so it really was just a matter of when- not if it would rain. I have noticed it especially on my last two runs. I leave the house looking all fresh and fine and come back looking like a drowned rat.This morning I went out a little early, not long after the kids left for school and it was so hard to breathe. I could make out a bit of a haze in the air and knew that the air was thick with moisture. I will need to remember to take my inhaler with me for all my runs from now on - just in case.
My program called for a 25min aerobic run today. Jodie wants me to be able to speak the whole way through my runs for now. I find talking to myself slightly embarrasing and a little one sided really. So instead I choose to sing songs. I can still keep track of my breathing that way and find it far more distracting then listening to my feet pound on the bitumen.
I am still wearing my SLS3 compression socks and really don't know what I ever did without them. My lower legs feel absolutely awesome when I wear them and I don't have that soreness and fatigue afterwards. I guess that's what they are meant to do, but I just guessed that maybe it was all a big gimic. Turns out they work so well on me I now want another pair but in black now.
The rains started this afternoon but only lasted briefly. So it is now even more humid BLAH. Predictions for summer in Australia are wet, hot and humid. Will be a challenging training season for me, but what doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. Atleast that what I keep telling myself.
10mm predicted here today. Thank goodness my running and cycling season is done.
ReplyDeleteMy rowing team would call those runs "Dirty Joke Runs." You ran at a pace where you could tell dirty jokes.
I'd take wet, hot and humid over bloody cold any day. But like you said...it'll only make us stronger.
ReplyDelete...and wetter.
I am just picturing yourself having a conversation with yourself, then its its get akwards, then the uncomfortable silence, then karoke breaks out.
ReplyDeleteLove what BDD said. I'm with Q, much rather be uncomfortably hot than cold.
ReplyDeleteI'll take your heat, but not the rain! All that conversing with yourself may get you institutionalized, but you'll be able to bring your bike and trainer, right? ; )
ReplyDeleteDon't know how I would run in that humidity!
ReplyDeleteAfter training in this weather- everything else will be easier!!
(I am gearing up to run in -30/-40 weather in the next few months...not sure if I would want that or humidity.
Guess it makes us stronger either way:))
Yes, I heard that about the summer alright, hot, humid & wet. Not a great combination for running or cycling. Keep it up though, you're making lots of headway!
ReplyDeleteFlatout Jim: Yeah, I think I could have told a whole heap at the pace I was going.
ReplyDeleteQuinton J: Haha, true, so true.
BDD: That's exactly what it was like :)
Kovas: I would much rather neither. But got to do it either way.
misszippy: Imagine sitting in some padded cell with your trainer....lol I would be super fit.
Dawn: OMG, that just sounds wicked. I guess the skies will be out then :)
Eoin: No, not a great combination at all. Oh well, gotta do it.