That title means nothing but my core body temperature right now. Holy moly.....it is too hot to do anything!! The day started out GREAT!! Actually better than expected. I went to the gym this morning for my additional day of running. Mondays are now intervals. I plan on doing 3 miles, however, if my running starts to improve, I am hoping to make it 4 miles of intervals. but we will get cross that bridge when we get there.
Back to this morning....3 miles of intervals. I struggle with intervals. I have a hard time knowing if I should pace my intervals on distance or time and then how much to do of each. This morning, I did timed intervals and I went back to my standard 5x1. At least that was my starting point. I decided to do round robins of 10 minutes. I did 5 minutes of a light jog, 1 minute of a power walk, 2 minutes of a sprint and then 2 minutes of a brisk walk, repeat, repeat, repeat. I'm not going to lie...after 2 of the sprints, I was whipped, had a hard time catching my breath and continuing on...I was whipped. BUT- because of a very good friend who jumped on the treadmill next to me and her phenomenal motivation, I finished all 3 miles. This was the first time I have finished the entire workout I was supposed to do in a really long time.
The problems started after that....between the unbearable heat and the amount of sweating I did, I got so dehydrated. I forgot to drink A GLASS of water from the time I left the gym until 2:00pm. this afternoon but couldn't figure out why I had a headache and I was so tired....hmmmmmmm. Earth to Tiffany.....DRINK YOUR WATER!!! Anyway, it messed me up the remainder of the day because I felt like rundown poop. Huge lesson learned.
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