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can i have that without the heat please?

passion for running category: running on Friday, August 5 2005

Oy! I had a hot 40 minute run today and if the heat wasn’t enough, I chose to hook up with a new, very fast (16 minute 5k kinda fast) runner today and if that wasn’t enough, Terry took me up a mother of a hill…twice.

I sucked. Really bad. And during the really bad sucking I wondered if Terry would ever want to run with me again but the kind hearted speedster finished our run saying, “more hills for you next Friday huh?” :)

Afterwards, I stood in a very cold shower for eight minutes and still managed to keep sweating at my desk for another 15!




5 Comments

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Comment by BD

Friday August 05, 2005 @

16 minute 5K! 16 minute 5K? 16 minute 5K. I just can’t get past that thought.

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Comment by Adeel

Friday August 05, 2005 @

I’m not sure how fast he was taking you. I’ll be a 16-minute 5k guy this fall if everything goes well and my iron levels are where they should be (unless you mean 16 flat instead of 16 and change). I have no doubt that we could run together without you being run rugged.

Any time you run with someone significantly slower than you on something other than a speed session, it’s probably only courteous to relax and slow down.

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Comment by Mark

Friday August 05, 2005 @

He treated me well. I just plain and simple sucked. I’m not good in the heat plus I hadn’t eaten all morning and was just really flat. We ran slow and I still sucked! Just a bad day!

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Comment by Beansprout

Saturday August 06, 2005 @

Ahhh…the heat! ‘ve been doing Hot Yoga for almost a year now. I swear I haven’t turned on the air-conditioning once this summer and it has been hot. Being in a room heated to around 42C totally acclimatizes your body. Reversely, I’ll probably die this winter but…just a thought.

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Comment by Dawn (aka Pink Lady)

Saturday August 06, 2005 @

I can’t even do 2k in 16 minutes…sheeeshhhhhhhhhhh. You running slow is still faster than me running fast..lol.

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