Notes
80 deg / 39% H / 53 dew pt
"Long" Run (not for the mileage but for the time)
Did drills prior. Right hamstring felt worse which is hard to fathom since I took yesterday off? Felt really hot out & there is no way the dew pt was 53. Started at Woodfield (corner of 51 & Johnston Rd) and ran into McMullen Greenway & once entered the greenway it felt like a rain forrest as the humidity skyrocketed. Ran this purposely slow w/a quick cadence but depressing to see the pace as this puts so far back & the pace is embarrassingly slow. Got dark near the 2.5 mi mark (I485 overpass & abt 3 mi in) & began to use headlamp & in addition to skyrocketing humidity I could see the air was carpeted w/bugs (in my face, my eyes, breathing them in). At 2.75 mi veered off greenway to an exit & then literally ran into (in the dark) what appeared to be one teen giving fellatio to another sitting on park bench w/four others watching who when they saw my headlamp scattered (the guy sitting on the park bench didn't nor did the person kneeling in front of him & could not tell if that was a girl or guy?). So when I go onto the street decided not to loop back & ran up to Colony, down to the 2 mi mark & back up the greenway to 51. Had to stop 1/2 mi fr 51 (5.75 mi in) as I felt dead, lost cadence & was dripping in sweat (shorts soaked). After several minutes resumed (felt terrible) & ran out of greenway & then added time by running up the hill on 51 towards the mall, & then at the top of the hill looped back and then down 51, finishing ~100 yds up Johnston Rd. I can't understand how badly I've regressed w/this injury (and the heat is destroying me).