A hot evening in Toronto and instead of letting it hurt my pace, I decided to fight through it. I started out at 5 minute kilometres (8 minute miles) and by the end, was pulling in marathon pace and faster. It hurt, I won't lie, but it felt really great to battle the temperature. I took in water on the run, I passed other runners, I raced up the hill striding by cyclists, and when I finished on a boardwalk, my breathing was elevated.
I glanced down at my heart rate metre, and it was at 170 bpm. Walking and breathing heavily I cooled down. It hurt. It hurt good. I remember thinking that it's runs like today that make me a stronger runner for tomorrow and marathon day.
14K/8.7 miles in 1:06
6 comments:
it was definitely a hot one tonight, well done getting it done! :) i'm sure you're right too about it making you stronger and better... well done!
Nicely done. I waited a bit later and just got back. Refreshing. Yeah that was me about 40 minutes into the run, not realizing how much suffering I was going to be in during the next hour and a half!
That hurt is definitely the best kind, way to bust it out!
YEAH! Your body will remember that one when it matters! Nice run!
It's already too hot to go today!
Re: the blog book, I'm very impressed with the quality, although I can't compare it what you already had printed. One thing to note is that hyperlinks don't print with the link in a different colour and if you really care about that then you need to go in to each post and show the url instead of a link.
You love to push the limits, don't you? It was disgustingly hot. I guess we have to get used to it. Way to fight the heat!
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