Holy Hot Batman!

Humidex was 38 degress C today. Very himid. Very hot. It always hits us hard this time of year as we go from relatively comfortable temperatures in the teens (50-60 degres F) to these temperatures in the upper 20s and low 30s with generally high humidex.

A few weeks ago I heard Frank shorter talking about it taking to 2 weeks to initially adapt to an environment (high alititude was his reference) and two months to see an improvement related to this new stress that body is adapting too. In the cases of high heat and humidity I would expect that after two months the body will actually sweat less from what was has been explaned to me. In the mean time it's just hot.

Ran for about 1h 25-30 yesterday and 1hr 55 minutes today. Todays route was planned based on proximity of water fountains. That strategy worked out well. I also planned a stop at a convenince store 1 hr into the run and took in extra calories. Today I tried 500 ml of chocolate milk and a chocolate bar (Mars bar). This seam to help a lot.

What did not gone down well today was the cytomax. It was okay for the first bit but became increasingly difficult to ingest after I started feeling the heat. I really relied on the water fountains to get in fluids other than the chocolate milk at the store. I had the feeling that I was taking in too much fluids overall today as well. Felt like I needed it but it felt sloshy in my stomach.

I weighed myself after getting back and having a 2nd choclate milk (seemed to be the day for it) and I was done 2.8 lbs from this morning. Unfortuntaely I didn't have a chance to weigh myself just before the run which would have been ideal. I'm going to try and do that more often while I work on ideal fluids consumption.

The last comment was partially in relation to a nutrition session I had yesterday with Beth Mansfield. She's really great local resource and gave me a lot to think about. One key is that I can definately aford to lose more fat. Currently sitting at 22% which isn't horific for my frame size but is a bit above where it should be and well above where I want it to be for running. We're lucky to have Beth in the city for sure.

Beth agreed with my goal of trying to get down to at least 190 lbs by Novemeber 5th. If all goes well I should dip below 200 this week. Keeping my fingers crossed. Part of doing this will be to really weed out the bad items in my diet like muffins in the morning. It's not to say that I can't have them once in a while just not every day during the week.

Also had the best sleep of the week last night. Didn't get up til after 10 this morning which is amazing for me. Missed the group run at the Running Room but sleep wass more important.

Lots of miles planned for this week. We're in Toronto for the weekend visiting friends. Looking forward to it, should be nice.