Run 353
Average pace: 5:41/km
Location: Burnaby Lake (CW)
Ran Spruce and Conifer Loops
Distance: 10.06 km
Weather: Sunny, hot, humid
Temp: 21-31ºC
Wind: light
Calories burned: 734
Total distance to date: 2963
This is one to forget.
First, the good:
I finished the run.
Now the bad:
Everything else.
This was my first 10K in two and a half weeks, my first run in five days and to make thing interesting, I overslept and instead of heading out at 8 a.m. when it was relatively cool I went out after 11 a.m. when the temperature was already at 21ºC and climbing.
By the end of the run it was 31ºC. You notice a ten degree rise in temperature over 10 km.
My left foot was also feeling a bit sore before the run, was hurting 5K in and was crying mother by the 8K mark.
The first km was surprisingly spry, with a nice pace of 4:56/km but the bottom fell out after and by the sixth km my run map had changed from a ribbon of sprightly green to hellish red. I managed a minor uptick in the final km but my final pace was a horrible 5:41/km.
Conditions were appalling, with the air a thick, warm soup, the trail clogged with large groups of walkers (some sort of run/event that I never quite caught the name of, though there were hats and t-shirts), not to mention two cyclists–one actually had the courtesy to be walking his bike, the other was with the event and pulling a large carriage behind his bike. He was going too fast and came around a corner on a narrow part of the trail. I narrowly avoided collision. I almost came to a complete stop on the first boardwalk, there were so many people on it.
By the end I was just glad to be done and took solace in the fact that it couldn’t possibly be worse on the next run, unless I got eaten by a bear or hit by a derailed train. It would also likely stand as the last Africa hot run of the year. I can’t say I will miss them too terribly.
