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in da heat!

August 16, 2019 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
Well, really the humidity was the salient factor. Running at 1 pm on this particular August afternoon felt like you were running covered in saran wrap. The sweat did nothing to cool you as it left the body, but instead clung to you, mixing with sunblock and seeming to trap the heat in. This is what I've been missing all these summers, going off to run in exotic places!

Ben Kolesar, my teammate from Williams, was back from his job in West Africa (Senegal and more recently Cote D'Ivoire). He and I headed out our usual route down Piney Branch into Rock Creek Park. It was incredibly slow going, and we both felt weary and out of shape. I shutter to think what our pace was and luckily I wasn't measuring it so I can remain in blissful ignorance of how slowly we ran. Still glad to get out for a run with him though and had some great conversations.