As of Saturday I will be a college graduate. yay. Now what does a man who is supposed to have all this intelligence do? Decides that when it is 90 degrees outside and sunny, running a 45min fartlek at 3:00pm would be a good idea. My diploma should be ripped up.
It was sunny, so I wore sunscreen. I forgot that sometimes sunscreen block your sweat pores. I got real hot real fast. Eventually I was able to use the sweat from my head to wipe off my sunblock, allowing me to sweat. Then As I was running, and running hard at times because this was a fartlek, I started to feel dizzy and get tunnel vision. Immediately alarm bells started ringing in my head, so I stopped by a nearby tree and did some stretching for a couple min. I then ran over to my fraternities house and got some water.
Feeling better I was able to finish off my fartlek in a manner befitting a fartlek, but for the most part I think that this day was wasted as far as speed training goes. But on the plus side I re-learned a couple important lessons about hot weather running. DON'T DO IT! There was a reason I was doing all my running at night this past week, it was because running in hot weather sucks.
2 comments:
I thought you were going to tell us that you got stabbed in the back by a thermometer! Running in hot weather really does suck, but good job taking a break/drinking when you started to feel dizzy. That's scary.
Jeez, sorry about the weather. I can never wear sunscreen during a run for the very reasons you mention. We're fine down here as long as we finish running by 7 or so in the morning.
Oh, congrats on graduating, that's a pretty big deal!
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