Running With Jack

The weather has been warming up dramatically the last few days in Germany. Just a week ago it was raining and around 18C/65F. Well that was a week ago, yesterday it was 38C at 3 p.m. when I suited up for a run – that’s a 100F people! My wife was not too pleased with my decision to head out into the heat, saying something to the effect that no one in their right mind runs when it is so hot…

Anyway I was well hydrated, kept the pace down and (to appease my wife) cut the run down to 9K/5.5M. The first couple kilometers along an asphalt bike path were stifling, but once I got into the woods and out of the sun it was more bearable. Surprisingly there were a lot of people out enjoying the first days of real summer weather, although admittedly I was the only one running :-) I got through the run without any problems whatsoever, as I expected – after spending two summers in the sweltering, humid heat of south-eastern Georgia, 100F isn’t so bad…

This morning I’m headed back to work, my week of vacation went entirely too fast, as it always does. This week I am tapering back in anticipation of a trail marathon on Sunday. The good news is that it is supposed to rain the latter part of the week which should bring the temperature back down again.