This was a rough week! It started off really good and then went downhill fast. Basically, we think I had heat exhaustion from my Wednesday night run and Thursday’s runch in the heat. Though I thought I had been hydrating and eating well, something did not agree with my life at the time and decided to act out.

Week #9

What was Planned vs What Really Happened:

Monday August 17th: Rest Day – Rest Day. Gosh, I’m good at this!

Tuesday: 5k – 5k morning run before 7am. Had a nice run outside before work as my parents were visiting. One must take advantage of being able to run outside even in this heat. 

Wednesday: 8k – 8k treadmill run. After working all day, getting the girls/dinner/play/bed time, I laced up and had a great but HOT run on the treadmill. I had the door open/window open and the fan on while I ran. I was very warm after this run but didn’t think anything of it since I usually feel that way after a treadmill run in the summer.

Thursday: 5k – 5k runch.  I ran outside on the trail at lunch time *hottest part of the day*. This is where things REALLY went south for me 😦 About 20 minutes after my run I started to not feel good and ended up not being able to keep any food in me. {sorry, TMI}. I left my air conditioning office into the sweltering heat, picked up the girls and went home. At his point I was in survival mode until bed time…which happened at 6:40 pm. I got the girls to bed and I fell asleep on my bed instantly! I slept for over an hour and still felt terrible. I got up, had a cold shower and drank some Vega hydrator, then went to be around 10ish.

Friday: Rest Day – REST DAY in bed. I took Friday off work and slept for 3.5 hours in the morning!!!!!! I felt terrible all day and figured I had “heat exhaustion”. I took it easy and was happy to see Sai when he came home. I couldn’t eat too much but was able to drink lots of fluids. Felt pretty crappy {bad word to use} that night.

Saturday: 10k Race – Unplanned rest day. Still wasn’t feeling 100% but was able to start eating normal food and do normal things with the girls and Sai. Took it easy energy-wise and had a really good night’s sleep.

Sunday: Cross Training – 12k. I had the best run! I woke up at 6 am to run 10k. I was going to run with two others but one family had the flu and one family slept in….when you have little kids and you ALL sleep…you don’t wake up early to “go for a run”…you sleep. So, I ran on my own after waking up slightly pissed off at myself for wanting to run so early. What’s up with that! Maybe, my bed was just to cozy 😉

Anyway….at 6:36 am I started running and ran out 5k from my house on the main road. It was a slow pace for me 6:30-6:45 for a while with a little 6:18 thrown in there. Around the 5k mark, I decided to run 11-12k and see how it goes.

I managed 10k in 1:06 {which will come in handy later in this post} and then kilometre 11 was 6:27 up a good hill and kilometre 12 was 5:35!!!! WOAH…….I pushed that last kilometre so much it was awesome! I was breathing hard and I’m pretty sure the look on my face was nothing but ugly but I ran 5:35 after running 11k!!!!!

That felt SO good!

Overall: I felt great running Tues-Wed-Thurs. Other then the heat and humidity, they were really great runs. Even Sunday’s run was great. It was the in-between that was a little challenging for me.

Highlights: “Long run” after three days of feeling terrible.

Low Points: Hanging out in the bathroom getting sick.

Weather: THE PITS! Super humid and HOT, HOT, HOT.

Total week 9 km: 30

Total km during training: 252   {102 km for August already}

Looking forward to this week: Hopefully feeling 100% in-between runs and my long run (18k).

Big News: The other day I was getting ready to sign up for the 10k Valley Harvest Marathon that is in October (11th) but before I did, I saw a post on Facebook from White Rabbit Pacing. They were still looking for a few pace bunnies. You can see where this is going.

So…….you are look at the {10k} 1:10 pace bunny at the Valley Harvest Marathon!!! This will  be my first time pacing other runners, so I’m really excited and hope I do a good job of it!

Week #8 here…just in case you missed it.

How was your weekend?

Have you ever had heat exhaustion, heat stroke etc. ?

Have you ever paced a run or been paced by a bunny?