Today is a running day. Per the schedule, I'm supposed to do 10-minute running intervals, with 3-minute rests. At the moment I type this, it is 82 degrees outside, with 51% humidity, wind 8 mph NE. Not bad for Houston, but even so...I don't want to run in that!
Okay, it's not so much that I don't want to run in that...it's that I'm afraid to run in that. I know that if I'm going to continue to a) run for exercise, and b) live in Houston, I'm going to have to learn to run in temperatures over 75 degrees. And with summer a mere 3 months away, it's got to be soon. Still...the thing I like absolutely the least about this city is the heat. The sticky, oppressive, 90-degrees-in-the-shade-for-4-months heat of it.
Unfortunately, I also don't like treadmills. Therefore, I must learn to run in the heat, and I guess today is a good a day as any to start. So I fill my water bottle, make sure I have shorts and a sleeveless shirt, and swallow my fear. 80 degree running, here I come!
Barring heat stroke, I'll report back later on how it went. :)
UPDATE: I survived! My average HR was higher than usual, it took longer to cool down afterward, and there was a bit of a gnat problem, but it was otherwise fine. 2.5 miles in just under 35 minutes. :)
Posted by Joy at March 30, 2005 12:42 PMGO YOU!!!! I'm in HOTlanta, I know humidity...so I feel for ya :(
Posted by: renee on March 31, 2005 09:21 AM