Holy crap the heat is here. After a somewhat mild spring summer is here with a bang. For those not familiar with the area it gets super hot here in the California Central Valley. And yeah it's a dry heat. It's not the humid stuff like we have in my homeland of East Texas. But this dry heat isn't a joke either. The combination of Heat, Dryness, and Wind (breeze) makes your skin feel dry all the time. It almost seems like you don't sweat at all (but you really are). Add in the effects of the blazingly bright sunshine and you're headed for disaster. I ran into this problem today on my run. It was 14 degrees warmer since my last run (I'm sure it was more since my last run was later in the day). That's a big change in temperature. My first 2 miles where great. Everything after that, not so much. From mile 3 to 4 was the hardest part. I only had a 16.9 oz bottle of water with me which was a mistake but I don't have any other hydration system. I'm a little undecided about that at the moment. I have never been so happy to finish a run as today. I was so glad it was over and that I could get out of the heat. After the run my RunKeeper app told me the time and pace for the run and I was pretty disappointed. My pace was 30 seconds slower than sunday on the same course. I make up excuses though, long day, rough day at work, the heat. I guess these do play a factor but 30 seconds? Really? So my new task is to find a hydration system that works for me. I have many more runs in this heat so I need to figure it out quick. So as Summer shows it's gnarly head I just want to wish you all a safe Summer and remind you to STAY HYDRATED.
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