Last Sunday, I did 10 miles on a relatively flat course. I started out on the Greenline here in Memphis at around 6:00 and the morning temps had already hit about 81 degrees. The humidity was pretty high as well. By the time I finished, I could pretty much wring the sweat from my shoes. My average pace for this ordeal was 10:30 and I was completely wiped out for the rest of the day.
Fast forward 7 days. My scheduled called for 11 miles and I've been getting bored with the Greenline so I thought that I would run a shortened version of the Germantown Half Marathon course. This has a somewhat tough hill for the better part of a mile near the beginning of the course and then a couple smaller hills right after that. It then flattens out for the most part and it's a pretty easy second half. My average pace for this? 9:40.
So, I ran 1 more mile and had a semi difficult hill to climb. The real difference was the temperature. It was about 10 or 12 degrees cooler at the start of the run. Hovering around 70 degrees for the better part of the run made for a beautiful morning. As I ran along, I was mulling over how awesome it would be to run in weather like that all the time. Unfortunately, we don't have plans to move to San Diego anytime soon. So, we'll just take these mornings when we can get them here in the summer and suffer through the others.
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