Same Track 2 Results

I’ve changed my long run days from a Monday to a Saturday or Sunday.

The reason I have done this is that most of the races I’m doing are on a Sunday, so it just makes sense to get use to running on these days.

On the 18th Feb, I had a long run scheduled of 13km.

18feb2013

Wow, I was utterly spent during this run. I ran with my fuel belt, and drank all my water, but the 9km mark I felt like I was dying, I really did not know if I was going to be able to finish, I was just super exhausted  I felt like I was going snail pace, but I kept at it and finished it.

Today I ran the same track.  Around the same, time, but totally different weather conditions (yes it was still sunny, but not humid), and my body felt really good. I only drank 3/4 of one bottle.  I also had my belt in a better position on my hips.

The other thing I did different was this time around I brought a gu energy gel with me, which I had at about the 50min mark (9km).

1mar2013

The distance is a little off, as run 1 I did with my garmin, run 2 I did with nike plus and mapped it out with runkeeper (as my garmin is being a poo AGAIN!).

So it just goes to prove that everyone (me included) have off days.  Today’s run, I felt fantastic, I seriously could have just kept going.  I also bumped into a running friend at the start of my run, so we stopped and chatted for a few minutes, we plan on running together soon, which I look forward to.

I’ve never liked humidity (I could never live in Darwin), it just doesn’t agree with me, and it gives me eczema break outs. But me running in humidity wow just sucks the life force out of me, I will still run when it’s humid, as it’s important to run in any weather conditions, well I think so at least. I’m just glad that summer is now over, and the cooler weather is upon us. Yay!

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