Sunday, September 28, 2008

Running Log 9/22 – 9/28


9/23 5:33am: 13k 1:12.50
9/24 4:48am: 21k 2:04.01
9/25 6:17am: 5k 28.05.9
9/26 6:18am: 5k 28.12.1
9/27 5:25am: 26k 2:24.32 (1:14.30 and 1:10.02)
Total: 70km

Most mornings when I walk towards my starting point I pass a construction worker waking himself up outside the barracks by smoking a cigarette. I can’t help but think that I am adding days to my life while he is doing the opposite.

On Wednesday I probably should have smoked. The humidity was high and there was zero air movement. I was sweating heavily before even leaving my apartment. In the three-hour period from when I woke up until I went to school, I drank six liters of water (just over 1.5 gallons). It was a dreadful, slow 21k and I barely made it to school on time (and even with a/c, didn’t stop sweating until 10am). But there were also lasting effects: for the next three days, whenever I stood up suddenly (or just stood up), my entire torso felt like it was being attacked with glass shards and I became woozy. That run really, really weakened me and I wisely followed it with two 5k's. Saturday's run was both great and it purged the tingliness - a good ending to the week.

[Two cups of sweat wrung out of my shirt at the 13k mark. Did I taste it later? Of course! (it's a little less mild than urine.)]

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