Urban Runner

This is my blog. I live, work and run in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I'm a regular 9 to 5er trying to find out what he can do with his running.

When I'm not running I've been known to enjoy the odd cup of coffee.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

How to get used to the humidity

You can't avoid it. You can't push it aside. It feels like you can slice it. And best of all, its calorie free. Okay well maybe there’s a big calorie penalty (sweat).

Overall on days like this I find it hard to feel peppy. Even with reasonably good sleep. Could have still used more sleep but what sleep I had was pretty sound.

Most of all it just seams harder mentally. The second part of my run just seamed like a huge distance tonight. Of course, once I got going it was okay but the mind wasn’t quite as accepting that everything would be okay.

Because of the rain I did both my runs on the treadmill tonight. I find that I need to be much more focused to have a good run on the treadmill. Still getting used to it I guess.

I’ll be curious how my weight does in the morning. I ate steadily, in small amounts for most of the day. I don’t feel I over ate but we'll see in the morning. The nutrition content was really good today.

2 more runs before the 10k on Saturday. No official taper for this race but my regular day off is Friday before the race. It will be interesting to see how things turn out. We haven’t been focusing on speed at all. Last week we pushed through the 10k in 48 and change. Not sure how much I can bring that down at this point. The weather may be a factor as it’s still pretty warm and muggy as noted above.

All I’ve been thinking about this evening is making sure I get good sleep. Somewhat obsessed or what eh!

Morning Weight:- 200.2
Workout:-
35 minute warmup
Strength and Conditioning workout
50 minute cooldown

1 Comments:

  • At 1:05 PM , Blogger jag said...

    Nicely put! ...and I hear ya'. I'm just getting back from my noon run (10:1s X 2) and I'm melting!! Here's hoping the humidity takes a holiday by Saturday for the race.
    See ya!

     

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