There's a really lovely island park, Belle Isle, near my home. There are small but lively beaches, a wicked fun water slide and a golf course - all of which I've taken advantage of. The island is also a pretty perfect round track that I decided to give a try a few days ago.
My question last post was whether or not hotter temperatures and bad scenery squashed my mojo and worsened my runs. This particular 7-mile island run was pretty gorgeous and since the parks were pretty quiet I got to share a few nice words and high fives with runners, walkers and cyclists (save for a few back road minutes that were boring and lonely) but it was REALLY. EFFING. HOT.
HOT.
I left home at 9am so that I could get running by about 10 after and even with almost 5 entire miles of water only a few feet away from me it was hot and humid and not at all breezy and I'm lucky that damn island is round because if I didn't have to get back to my car I'd have quit at least 10 times.
Phew.
I finished. 7.2 miles, bridge entrance to bridge exit and felt pretty beast mode when I was done. Mostly, though, just because I was done. Even for a slowpoke like me my time was pretty poor. Almost 1:30 for the 10K and 1:45 for the entire thing. Almost 15 minutes per mile, a lot of which were walking thanks the many, many awful heat induced feels.
I only ran twice the rest of the week because I was feeling so terrible after that run. At least it helped me learn the lesson that I need/want to work on not only endurance (and with that, speed) but also my own motivation. I hope that after my next bad run I'll be motivated to do better next time rather than feel bummed and wanting to quit.
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