Well, it seems that the heat is back. This afternoon, I rode 30 miles and followed it up with a four mile run. I felt like I was melting out there while running. I took the first mile out in about eight minutes, and then kept getting slower and slower… and slower! The thermometer said it was 94 degrees out there. And that’s just the raw temperature, not the heat index. Tomorrow, it’s supposed to be even hotter! Weeeee!

In some kind of sadistic way, I actually like training in this crap. The way I see it, if I’m out there in the worst of the worst heat conditions during training, if it turns out to be a scorcher on race day I’ll be ready. And anything less than what I’m used to training in will be a treat! Right now though, my lungs hurt. It actually is hard to take a deep breath. It reminds me back when I lived in California and would workout during a smog alert day or something. Oh well, it’s nothing that a good evening in a nice air conditioned house can’t fix.

Tomorrow, I might take the day off and try getting my long ride in. I’m still toying around the idea of running the Urban Wildlife Half Marathon this Saturday that TriMama clued me in about. I need to get a long run in this week and it seems like it would be more fun to do that race than to just run solo. I just need to make sure I don’t go crazy and run it fast. Heh. As if I could do such a thing. I don’t get how runners just trot along at 6-7 minute pace while I have to be red-lined to run at speeds slower than that. I’m going to need to do something about that in the off-season…