It's a good hurt...

First of all, weather-wise was not my bag today. High 70's and very humid - humidity being something I find intolerable while sitting on the porch. I know I need to not be whining about this because the weather will most surely become consistently more hot and humid as time goes on, so I'm hoping there will be some level of adjustment to it.

Today I increased from 5 min:1 min running/walking intervals to 7:1. It was hard. I didn't look at my watch while I was running but my body knew when 5 minutes was up and I was really working for that endless extra 2 minutes. I had been doing 6 reps of the 5:1 and only did 4 of the 7:1 which was a little disappointing but I knew that I had done all I could do and I was glad to have been able to do it at all with the humidity.

I have a positive attitude, dammit...

I can't complain - I increased my running time, which consequently improved my overall pace even though I had to run very slowly at the end, I tolerated the heat in the end and am thinking forward to becoming somewhat accustomed to it as time passes, and I realized that a couple of really good runs can mentally carry me through runs that are not so really good. Thanks to Dianna and Richard for the recent encouragement. I had no idea that running could be such a cool paradox! (I'm sure there'll be days when I will need to look back on these Pollyana posts).

Shopping List...

Shorts, definately some running shorts. My black capri sweat pants and cotton tee made me very damply unhappy. I am short and (wicking fabric) tank top shopping tomorrow. Now, knowing central New York, I could be running in 40 degree weather 2 days from now but I've got plenty of clothes for that.