the effects of humidity

on saturday, we did a shorter 8 mile run and it was terrible. all of my teammates were miserable and it was MUCH harder than the 14 mile run we did last week. why you ask? because on saturday, it was unbearably humid. i never realized how much of an effect humidity has when running until saturday. to run 14 miles the week before in such great weather and feel great and then run almost less than half that distance the following distance and suffer so greatly is clearly an indication of how hard it is to run when it's humid.

this coming saturday, i will be running a race, the new york city half marathon. to check out the course map, click here. i really really hope that it will be more like 2 weeks ago rather than this past weekend. i'm also hoping to beat my last half marathon race time at the shakespeare half marathon of 2 hours, 5 minutes and 24 seconds. not sure that will happen though but i can always dream.