Hydration: enough or too much?

Today was a humid day IMHO. Some people didn’t think it was humid. I did. I sweated like crazy and that speaks for itself.

Today was another zone 1 run starting in the top of zone 1 and working my way down through the middle and into low zone one in the last part of the run. I also did 10 extra minutes in total, five in high zone 1 and 5 in the mid zone 1. Total of 120 minutes.

I started with the guys at the Running Room again this morning. Bit of a faster start today but nothing out of zone 1. Usually the guys get to their target pace no later than 4 or 5 k into the run and then stick to that pace for the most part from what I’ve seen. The first part (warm-up) can be faster or slower depending on the day. The nice part is that this still falls in my zone 1 generally. Today I stayed with them for the first 20 minutes roughly.

Now, on to the topic of the post for today. My run started fine, felt comfortable, focused on keeping in the right zone again. Also really worked on “feeling” the pace today. Sounds good so far. As the run went on hydration was definitely becoming a factor. I really noticed it today. I found I drank more throughout the run but parts of the run (70-80 minutes in) were a bit rough. Thinking about it after, I probably had some discomfort simply because of the added volume of fluids and Perpetuum. It’s hard to tell if I began taking in too much or was just uncomfortable because of the added fluid volume.

Afterwards I was more stiff than usual. It’s seams okay now fortunately.

I was excited to see that I broke 100 k last week (106.5). It’s been one of my goals to see what I can do once I get to this kind of volume. I got all my runs in and as scheduled. This week should be a high mileage week as well.

Morning weight was good:- 190.6