Today was the real deal Florida AM run. Humid (although in the 80% range because I went around 8:30), sun out, and too warm for running. I did another one of my walk/run deals for 30 minutes. During my first walk interval, I realized that this week actually has a different format than the previous weeks and that I was pretty sure this morning's run was supposed to be a fartlek. Ah well. Saturday is supposed to be 3M, so I will just move stuff around and finish up the week as is. Tomorrow, then, is 4M (ew) and Thursday will be a fartlek. That might not be so bad since there is walking in it (if I do a pyramid instead, which is fully what I intend to do), although I don't think that I will go very fast. Actually, I should probably do three pyramids since it is supposed to be a 4M fartlek, so that is the new plan (each pyramid = 15 minutes, in a world where we are pretending that I run relatively quickly).
Today was another tough one, as evinced by the fact that sweat is still dripping off of me 15 minutes later (ew). I had been lucky so far in avoiding Mr. Florida Sun--as he was affectionately known during marathon training--but today I figured I should face him. He's still a strong and powerful entity. But this is all part of adapting. This run was not fun. At least it wasn't hideously awful and I survived it. I was a bit disheartened to realize that these are basically going to be the conditions for the rest of my training plan, but I tried not to dwell on that fact for too long.
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