Sunday Long Run - 090708

As usual I was up early. I wanted to sleep a little bit longer but it must be a force of habit so to speak. I'm a morning kind of guy. I'm normally up about 4:30am daily. Would take coffee while reading the news then would work on my docs or check on my emails when no one would disrupt me. It's a bliss. I got to the garage & I cleaned up my bike. Brushed all the gears and removed the tar that clung on the frame. Could not helped not to wash Arni's bike as well. And cut all the excess cable ties, installed my extra bottle holder, brushed off grease off the chain and cogs, etc. It's sparkling clean.

I did some errands in the morning so I decided not to run early. I usually do early Sunday long runs before my family wakes up. But today I woke up refreshed and out of the blue thought of doing heat training (as if the bike+run yesterday was not hot enough!). So I informed the guys who would take on the challenge. Ferdi did not have second thoughts and we were on for an 11am run at UP. He had also some errands to attend to and I also delivered water to some of our dealers before going to UP. It was already about 12:25pm and a little bit gloomy (thank God!) when we started to run taking the first half hour easy. We diverted down to the Balara pools for a bit of downhill/uphill slope training. It was a great training simulation for the hills of Subic. We did 2 loops with hills. The sun was shining ever so brightly and we are feeling the heat of the road on our feet (particularly along the university avenue stretch). Told Ferdi I wouldn't dare take off my shades. We cooled down around the academic oval where it was mostly shaded by the big acacia trees. I got home and had a couple of peanut butter sandwich with Endurox and I dozed off. Got up around 5:30pm and had a cup of coffee. I had second thoughts already if I would still do the swim workout when Ferdi called and asked if I would still swim. Hell yeah!