Notes
East Run [7:47 pace p mi adj for heat]
73 degrees, 90% humidity, 70 dew pt. Absolutely miserable. Weather cooperated until the end as no rain for the first 5 miles (and then a downpour!). Rolled my left quad w/lacrosse ball after fast walk warmup to loosen up the two new and bad knots. When I started, I could feel pain/tightness in left Adductor for about the first 2-3 minutes. However, I could really feel the knot pain and it made my left leg feel "unstable", and accentuated the issue w/my Adductor, it almost felt like my leg was going to collapse (similar to how I felt on Tuesday). This fortunately went away 3/4 of mile in. After that, felt good for the first 2.5 miles but then I could feel myself getting hotter and hotter (and wondering whether my fitness is pitiful or whether the insane dew pt was making matters worse). Goal was to run 5 miles straight -- but had to stop at 3.7 miles because I was overheating badly. After walking around to cool down, continued on and this then felt like a Burma death march. Struggled in mile 5 and it became a real grind, but somehow got a second wind at about 4.8 miles where I started to feel stronger and my stride/form felt stronger. And then the rain started to where it became a downpour over the last 1/2 mile. When I was struggling (most of mile 5) this felt like 8:45 pace, and when I got that second wind it felt like 8:10 pace (was going much faster on both counts).