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Muggiest 440 ever

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I got out relatively early this morning to beat the promised heat of the day. However I didn’t get up early enough to beat the humidity of the last several days. I started slowly on the way to the track but picked up my pace pretty well with the help of the King of Mambo – Perez Prado. By the time I got to the track I was feeling pretty warmed up. I trued to use my lap counter on my Garmin, which has always been sporadic in its proper functioning. I wonder if the high humidity had anything to do with it. But I did manage to capture my first lap: 1:47 at a 6.42 pace, .27 mi (outside lane though the Garmin are not supposed to be good at the track mileage wise). Halfway through my second lap I started to feel pretty pooped. About the same time, so did my watch. My third and fourth laps were progressively slower. I felt like I was swimming through the mugginess. I had originally intended to do six laps, but I settles for four. Considering I was ready to settle for 2, I did pretty good.

Leaving the track I just went the way I came in rather than through the reed campus. After a couple of blocks I walked for a bit until I hit the hill and then powered up it. I missed the light at Powell and had to happily wait for a walk signal. Through Creston Park I hit the stairs but that was it, time for another walk and some sharkies. I somehow managed to finish the run home without stopping. Phew.

I have been hydrating well today after the run. San Pelligrino really does the trick! Still I feel pretty well run out. I definitely feel like I got a good quality run in today. At the very least in terms of sweating.

Mile high intervals

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This morning I made it over to the high school track. It always brings back memories of those years even though I didn’t run track in HS. The extent of my time in the stadium was spent marching for half-time shows with the band. Still it is kind of neat to run there. I didn’t think I would be able to get in at first as all gates were locked. I had given up and headed to the Jr. High just to the north when I saw what looked to be an open gate used for maintenance purposes. So I sneaked in and was able to crank out some straights and curves, two miles worth. The run ended up being just under 5 miles in total.

I am still noticing the elevation here. My HR seems to stay 5-10 beats higher than normal and my speed on the straights was lessened. I noticed that my recovery seemed to be affected as well. As I would finish my “sprints” on the straights I would fall into a slow jog on the curves and my HR continued to rise for longer than I am used to. In fact it kept going up for nearly half the curved portion before it started falling. Of course it then didn’t get back to as low as I usually liked before it was time to run fast again. So 150+ was a bout as low as the distances would allow me. For the last two laps of my run I was feeling pretty pooped out, the humidity was killing me. I almost gave up but decided that I would continue on and force myself to complete the full circuit of eight laps.

My cool down was pretty slow and I plodded along past an old girlfriend’s house, the library and an astonishingly large corn field in someones lot that used to be a pet cemetery. This is my last run of this trip to Winslow and I find myself missing the chance to get out in the town to relive memories. But I have to say I will not miss the heat, the humidity or the elevation.