After four days of no running, I went for my first post-grad run today. Once again I missed my local parkrun, so I decided to do the course on my own today - no park runners, no Laura, nothing but me and my cheesy music.
I walked from my home to Mile End Park (about 25-30 minutes) and began the course. I did one circuit in reasonable time, albeit with several walking breaks - but I went to start the second one and I had to pull up, as the heat was really getting to me.
The official temperature for this area said 21°C, so I thought I'd be OK - but with the heat beating off the buildings, pavements and hard ground, I think it was more like 28°. Anyway, I started to feel really peculiar - so I had to abandon my efforts.
There were no buses due to a huge traffic jam, so I walked home. At least I managed to fit in a couple of micro-runs of a few minutes each on the way back.
I'm a bit fed up that I didn't achieve my objective - I ended up doing 7.75km in all, in 1 hour 35 minutes, so pretty slow. Still, at least I did something.
Just to give you an idea of our parkrun route, here is a page on Mile End park and the Green Bridge: greenroofs.com/blog/2012/10...
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Thanks 90ldfinch. The good thing about bad runs is that you know the next run will be better.
Our parkrun course is a good one. It's a bit challenging with that massive climb over the bridge (which we have to do 4 times in the course of the run!) but that probably helps to increase our fitness.
Looks a fab place to run 😊you did amazingly well to cover 7.75 km in that heat, you did the right thing stopping 😊
Don't be down hearted , you went and you ran, always a plus , tomorrow is another day .
Katie, thank you for posting I also did my first post grad run Saturday afternoon, hot and really humid, I decided to run a flat route as I was hoping to push beyond 5.5km. hit the wall at approx. 3k and walked home. my reflections on this were
1. I was tired having had 4 past midnight bedtimes in a row that week
2. I normally run in the cool of the morning when my energy levels are best
3. humidity had a heating effect on my body and decreased my air intake
4. note to self don't get to cocky !!!
5. this was 3km more than I could do 3 months ago in one hit
will try again tomorrow after a good nights sleep and early in the morning
Sounds an amazing amount to me! But I think set out later, it was very hot today and even the evening was warm and humid. I cant do mornings either (not even too good for swimming). At the risk of TMI, I also get the upset tummy feeling if a bit dehydrated.
You did the right thing stopping. You're not supposed to feel like that when running. And you got a whole lot of exercise despite aborting the mission. 🌞🌞🌞
Hi - I made it twice over the banana bridge (and mostly running, too!). Then I started on the second circuit, but had to give up just before the bridge.
That workout was no "failure" at all -- just because you did not achieve what you set out to do. I think that people just do not understand how much they need to slow down in the heat - Jeff Galloway' style of training is ( it seems to me) to be very conservative - he really caters for real runners (you know - slow ones like us!! - and he says this jeffgalloway.typepad.com/je...
For those who are a bit "mathematically challenged" -- he says that for every 5F/3C above 60F/16C, to slow down by 30 seconds per mile ( 20 seconds per klm )
So in your case, at 28C, you should be slowing down by 1 minute 20 secs per KLM!! I'll bet you didn't do that!!
To be honest, if I'd slowed down by 1 minute 20 seconds per km, I would have been going backwards by the end! But thank you for this information - it's well worth bearing in mind.
And next time I will choose a more sensible time of day to do my running ...
Heat is no joke. I knew a girl who died of heatstroke years ago, a bad way to go and so easy to succumb to. You lived to run another day - I don't call that defeat, I call it darn intelligent Wishing you many happy miles in comfortable and sane temperatures in your future
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Defeated, Disappointed and Sad!
Defeated by W6R3 - gutted 
Oh dear! First defeat!
The heat!! 
W8 - defeated by my hip
