An ugly workout this morning. I got home last night from NYC at 12:30am. Got about 5 hours of sleep before the birds were chirping in my ear. I checked the forecast and we have a heat advisory out today. Temps were to reach the low 90s with some humidity thrown in for good measure. That is flat out scorching for around here, especially in June.
So I decided to beat the heat and do my speed workout this morning at 7:15am after dropping my daughter off at school.
The workout was 3x2M @5:00-5:04 with four minutes rest between intervals. Easy enough, right? Well, not so much. By the end of mile 1 (5:02) I knew I was in big trouble. The temp was already 70 degrees and the heat index was 76 with some wind. Mile 2 was a respectable 5:06 but my legs were 100% lead. You could have unleashed a grizzly bear behind me and I would not have been able to get my legs to move any faster. I did the math and I had spent 13 of the previous 36 hours sitting on an airplane and gotten no better than 5 hours of sleep either night. Not such a great way to optimize for a successful workout. Oh well.
So I did the second rep and finished in 10:25. Not pretty. I spent the 4 minute jog wondering whether to go on. I tried the third rep twice and both times stopped after an 80 second lap. No sense to risking something just to get a third rep in that would have the effort of a 5:00 but no where near the result.
I used to get all worked up about workouts like this but once or twice a year I bail early on a workout and i'm fine with that.
Oh...it's 89 degrees outside right now. Running in this would have been even worse. | 