June 26 - Ran (mostly walked) 5 miles at 14:40 pace. My recovery actually went up from 100 to 112. I guess the slant of my driveway is steeper than I thought.
June 30 - I did 8 miles. Again, I mostly walked. It's been hot, and I've not been running consistently. I have also been dehydrated some, but don't want to type about it.
I finished June with 58.3 miles for the month. A year-to-date total of 488.3. So, at the half-way point, I'm only 11.7 miles behind pace for a 1,000 miles for the year.
July 3 - Did 5 miles at 10:01.
July 4 - Did 5 miles at 15:07. Mostly walked, as you can tell.
July 6 - Did 6 miles at 10:37. If I'm gonna go so slow and walk, I may as well add a mile.
July 7 - Did 8 miles at 12:36. Walked about half.
July 9 - Did 5 miles at 10:14. My max heart rate hit 213 - probably a glitch.
July 12 - Ran (not "did") 5 miles in 9:47. Maybe the previous heart rate was not a glitch, because it hit 205 on this run.
July 17 - Did (yes, back to "did"), but this one is a little different. I did some walking, some extremely slow jogging, and a couple of sprinting moments. My best pace hit 5:52 (see Part 1 for description), but my max heart rate only reached 191. I don't know how this could be when on the previous 2 runs it was over 200. Anyway... I'm not doing good. I'm not running consistently. When I try to run, I have to walk. I hurt. I've been taking stuff for pain, especially knee pain, before bed for a while. Now, I'm hurting enough some mornings that I have to take something. I also can't seem to get hydrated. I don't have to get up in the middle of the night. I usually pee before leaving work and then have to pee as soon as I get home. The other day we got home from work about 5:00 and I didn't pee until just after 8:00. I've been trying to drink more.
SOME WEATHER FACTS:
On June 29, the hottest recorded temperature in Nashville's history. The records date back over 100 years. The temperature hot 109. As the weatherman was talking about this, the TV screen showed "Nashville 109 *". The asterisk indicating a record. The screen also showed another city with an asterisk (I'm thinking "Crossville 102 *" for some reason). It also listed Clarksville, but without an asterisk, at 110. I guess Clarksville was the hottest in the state on June 29, but it was not a Clarksville record.
The day before (the 28th) Nashville set a record for that date at 107. It was also the hottest June 30th at 105. The same for a July 1, also 105. I didn't hear about July 2 or 3, but July 4 was another record - I think 102. July 5 another record at 104. Not sure about July 6. I think July 7 was a record, but don't know what. Finally got some rain on July 9.
The news also said that across the country 2,000 records had been set since July 1. (Nashville's was June 29). It also got so hot at Reagan National Airport that a planes tires sunk into the melting tarmac. Here's part of a news story:
"No one likes airport delays. We want to get where we're going as quickly as possible, please and thank you. But one plane on its way from Reagan National Airport to Charleston, South Carolina faced an extremely bizarre delay when it couldn't take off because the tarmac had melted.
Yes, the concrete actually melted. While trying to take off, the tires on the plane sank into the runway and the plane could not move."
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