weeks of 10 and 17 July

Was on work travel, leaving 10 July and flying back 21 July. Brutally hot and humid Destin, FL.  Did one outside run and rest on hotel treadmill, which was still warm with no airflow but not the humidity.  Numbers are infllated.  Was usually ~5.0 mph.  But since I had on the foot pod and should have been calibrated after 2 outdoor runs with it, maybe it's fair?

Missed some days because working 12-hour days.  Did really well to get 33 miles the first week, just getting some miles 6 days but no real long runs.

 came home with only 8 on a friday.  Managed to get miles friday, saturday, and sunday to hit ...

week of 10 July

• Mon.  ran at home morning before flight.  usual gc 5.  4.78@12:17/136.
• Tues.  Destin.  5.83@11:14/144.  Flat.  77F/73dp. Kinda brutal.
• Wed. nothing.  damn work.
• Thu. hotel treadmill.  watch read 5.44@11:06/144, but was probably 5.0 in 1:00:25 (set at 5 mph).
• Fri. 5.01@11:33/133 treadmill.  probably 4.8-5.0 mph on mill.
• Sat. 5.01@11:15/130 treadmill.
• Sun. 7@10:52/134 treadmill.  I think it was set to 5mph, but I'll take a cheat this week.

Miles: 33.1.  6h15m.  3832 calories

BP.  one reading on 7/10.  125/65.

Weight: no weigh ins.

Week of 17 July.

• Mon. 0.7 outside.  yes 0.7.  no sleep, brutal weather.
• Tue.  hotel tmill.  2.4.  working crazy hours.
• Wed. 5.0 hotel tmill.
• Thu.  nothing.  had to get to work at 0545 after up until 1am.
• Fri.  Back home after flight.  1:30pm.  84 degrees but low humidity felt great by comparison to Florida.  Ran 1 burke lake loop.  4.58@11:34/142.
• Sat.  2 burke lake loops.  77 degrees (80 by time done).  9.14@11:11/147.  Lots of upward cardiac drift but even pace/power.  avg power 298W.  Low lap  was 28 and max 304.  Pace between 11:02 and 11:22.  Last 0.6 of first lake lap was 11:20/147 and last 0.6 of 2nd lap was 11:13/161.  Quads sore after this.
• Sun. gc 5 very easy.  quads quite sore from yesterday (11:11 pace makes me sore. sad!)  63 degrees.  Kind of wish I didn't waste my effort on yesterdays run.  4.8@12:52/127.

Total: 26.65.  5h11m.  3400 calories.

Weight:  188.5 (n=2).  189.2 on Sat an d 187.8 on Sun.  pre-run.  drank glass of water before weight in on Sat, so think maybe it's real?  Although I usually weight less after a long run and gain during the week.

BP:  was 125/79 on sat.  surprised that high after sleeping, but 114/62 on Sun.  had my flax seed on Sat, but doubt it would act that fast (and am not sure it does anything).

Dissapointed in the mileage, but I worked 138 hours in 2 weeks with two travel days and averaged just shy of 30 per week.  Would have done more this week except my overexuberance on Sat.

My watch was impress by my Sat run and bumped me for a VO2max of 41 to 42.   Would have hoped for more with the weight loss.  Also hoping cooler weather improves my paces, but I think Garmin takes that into account in VO2max.

So, at 188.5 I'm down about 10 pounds from my April average.