Tonight was hot! We had talked about doing a very hilly run of a little over 5 miles. Thomas was reluctant but I kept pressuring him so he decided to give him. About half way into it the sun got to me. This overwhelming heat came over me and I had to stop and walk or something nasty would have happened. I know that I did not drink enough water today and my body wasn't in a proper place to put it through the abuse I did tonight. But, I pressed on and worked hard.
So, we walked for about a hundred yards and than began running again. Thomas quickly took off and left me in the dust but I kept trucking along. Like I said the course was very hilly, BIG HILLS, so it was pretty taxing on our bodies. One nice thing was that it was on gravel. Now, if you have run on gravel this usually isn't a nice thing, but tonight was so hot that it was nice not to run on the blacktop.
I made it the remainder of the run until I had about a half mile left. At this point we had to get back on blacktop and the heat took it out of me. I got the same feeling I had earlier and I stopped and walked about 100 yards again. I ran another little bit and then had to stop and walk. My body was done. I wasn't out of breath, which is a good thing, but my body was spent. I finished up the run walking and met Thomas at my house. He said he walked a little when he got to the blacktop again due to the heat but had enough in him to finish the run. If I would have been able to finish the run I would have been about five minutes behind him. Again, this is encouraging to me because that is the same time as when we ran four miles the other week. I'm getting in shape! When I got home and after about twenty minutes of calming down I got ready and took a shower. When I took my clothes off I rung them out in the sink and it looked like I had been swimming in my clothes. My shorts got rung out! I had a white shirt on and it was completely see through. There was not one dry spot on it and it was all sweat. Nasty!!
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