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June 21, 2006
HHI
O and I always joke that HHI really stands for hot, humid and icky instead of Hilton Head Island. Man oh man was that no joke this morning! I know it's not even hot down here yet compared with normal southern standards but today this northerner was hurting. :)
The problem was we kind of slept in and when you don't start running until 9:15 am or so, you're going to pay the price. That's okay though, it was worth the extra zzz's. :) We went to the beach again, this time for O and I both to run and my mom to walk.
I did 45 minutes of total running, 11 minutes warmup, 15x1 minute hard w/1 minute easy and then 5 minutes cooldown. It actually went okay, I was just really feeling the heat and humidity. Luckily on the way back the ocean breeze was in my face and it felt really good. Truthfully my hard intervals probably weren't slowing down too much, but my easy jogging rest - oh my was I shuffling along! O was doing a 3 mile tempo run and so I was really glad that I wasn't doing that. :) After the run we all walked along in the water for another 25 or 30 minutes and then headed home. The cool ocean water felt really good on my weary legs.
And so goes the life of the vacationer! What a life! Today we are being lazy bums - watching movies and World Cup soccer and playing games - all in the nice cool comfort of air conditioning. :)
Posted by beth at June 21, 2006 1:30 PM