The heat wave continues ...

I have to say I’m feeling like burnt toast tonight. Ran at the RR tonight as per plan. John and I worked the last half of our run fairly hard. Given that the temperature was around 30 and humid and sunny, the result was predictable. As crazy as it sounds we could have pushed harder but backed it off a little bit in places to keep it manageable.

It’s always a toss up as to whether or not to deviate from the plan and run a little harder on a planned Easy Run day. Certainly for the first ½ I was okay. The fun was really in the second half which is mostly uphill. The pace in pure terms probably didn’t dip below 4:20 at the most but it just felt really hard to push anywhere near that pace.

In the end I think this run was more about mentally pushing myself when I’m not in control of the pace. There was no way that I was letting John go in the last section. This probably was the real benefit of tonight’s run.

Going forward I’ll need to be cautious about doing these faster runs. It’s good race prep at the moment for my Canada Day 10k but in the long run it will affect my planned hard workouts ever Thursday night.

Tomorrow night it’s back to the track for 10x 1 min on / 1 min recovery at just slightly faster than 5k pace. It’ll be hot tomorrow so it should be interesting again.