4 km today…

Marilyn and I just about got heat stroke today. Well, no, it was far from that, but still we got too hot to continue. We planned on doing 10 km today, 5 of which are uphill and 5 downhill because it just happens to be a
1 km hill. Unfortunately we could only do 4 km because we got too late a start and the day was too hot AND the route was 100% in the hot blazing sun with absolutely no shade on black asphalt. Man, I never had such a problem with heat before, probably because I have never run in hot conditions before. Hopefully I will be getting better acclimated to the heat as I train for the 5peaks trail run this July 15th.

Our intended “hill training” at WEM did not happen as planned, we postponed it for another day. That’s because we got sidetracked trying to find running shoes, and it just never happened. Shopping can be *such* an ordeal and a big time-waster when you get clerks who don’t know anything but refuse to admit it and they try to bafflegab you with bullshit. Another time-waster is when you call ahead to ensure the store has something in stock, then you drive 40 miles only to find out that they have something “similar”. This has happened so many times to us that we now insist that they get a “visual” on the product before and we emphasize that they should make sure because “we have to drive 40 miles to get this and fuel is expensive and we will be very angry if we find that it is not in stock after all”. Often the clerks just check the computer inventory, because they are too lazy. Another big time waster (and this is entirely our own fault) is when we miss a turn and end up having to drive around in circles instead of going directly to the stores parking lot. This week that happened a frighteningly huge number of times to us so that we began questioning our own sanity. Sheesh. I HATE SHOPPING. …and we still have no shoes.