Humidity can suck it!

I had Friday off of work so I headed to southern Illinois on Thursday evening. It was hot and muggy the entire drive down. I decided to attempt my run of 8 miles on Friday instead of Saturday, since I had plans to go to STL on Saturday.

My mom kept telling me not to go because she was afraid I was going to get heat exhaustion. I told her that I know the signs and I'm gonna stay close to home and have a bottle of water with me. I wasn't too worried. May plan was to be on the road by 6:30a.

It was still hot and humid when I woke up at 6a. By the time I got ready to go out at 6:50a, it was 78 degrees and 96% humidity. Yep. And I ran. I didn't get the 8 miles in, only 5.6. I started to get chills and hallucinating so I called it quits. My route called for me to go out into the country. I knew that there would be no shade so I stayed in "town" and when I stopped under a tree shadow, I could feel the humidity oppressing down on me! When it feels better to keep moving, than stand still in a shadow, you know it's bad.

Here's a video to sum up my run.


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Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 519 ft Location: Bluford, IL Elev. Gain: +3 ft Date: 06/19/09 Up/Downhill: [+239/-236] Time: 06:56 AM Difficulty: 3.2 / 5.0 Weather: Fair 81 F temp; 76% humidity 86 F heat index; winds S 7 Performance Distance: 5.60 miles Time: 0:55:57 Speed: 6.0 mph Pace: 9' 59 /mi Heart Rate: 175 bpm (Avg) Calories: 598 193 bpm (Peak) Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Heart Rate (bpm) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 24 -0' 35 6.4 +0.4 158 -13 ft 2 9' 44 -0' 15 6.2 +0.1 173 0 ft 3 9' 48 -0' 11 6.1 +0.1 183 +4 ft 4 11' 29 +1' 30 5.2 -0.8 177 0 ft 5 10' 58 +0' 59 5.5 -0.5 181 +7 ft end 12' 08 +2' 09 4.9 -1.1 182 +6 ft Versus average of 9' 59 min/mile

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