Kansas, you are slowly trying to kill me. Stop it.
Ice bandannas are the bomb.com. Rain in the AM, so running in the PM. Feels like 94? Sure.
#truth
94% humidity at 5 am. We ran in humidity fog that made it super hard to breath, but were treated to beautiful colors at dawn.
Another practice. Seeing really good things again. Lap times are coming down to what he ran last year. Lines looks super good. We will put it all together at some point.
Took boom for a play date with my running partner's new pup Cersei. He was a big asshole and I am not sure why. We have some work to do apparently.
The ONLY good thing about getting up at 5 am to run. 5 miles with Rockin Robin and talk therapy.
Our running store had it's 12 year anniversary sale and to celebrate they had a crepe truck come and serve crepes. I had a savory crepe with ham and cheese and then a smore for my dessert crepe. AMAZING!
Our AC unit went kaput right in the middle of several 100 degree days. It's only a couple of years old and my hubby thinks he can fix it, but it's finding the time for him to actually do that, that is the problem. Anyway, to cool off later I had a beer with some beer salt. I had a shiner lime and sea salt earlier this year and LOVED it, but now I can't find it, so I am making my own version. YUMMY!
We have decided to let the weather dictate our long runs. It was feels like 76 with 89% humidity, so 10 miles was it for us. I was POURING sweat and was miserable the whole run. I think my body isn't getting that cooling off that it needs at night, so I am starting the run off hot and that isn't good for me, miss i can't handle the heat runner. I tried using an ice bandanna, but as the ice melted, water went down my front and caused horrible chaffing to my bra area even though I had lube on. Then everything felt like a hot wet blanket because the moisture wasn't evaporating.
Post run coffee and doughnuts at the town we use to live in when we first moved to KS. Super spacious cool coffee shop with good doughnuts, amazing coffees, and biscuits and gravy.
Race day. We were down a handler, so I had to help with the car. Thank goodness a volunteer stepped up and took my job in the tower. We only had one practice this week, but his confidence was much higher. No panic attacks thank goodness, but maybe because I was down there in the hot chute with him pre-race. Our goals were to have fun, try and pass, and TRY HARD meaning no giving up. He was sitting in fourth place in the heat race when a friend tried to pass and gave him a little love tap that got his momentum stopped and then all the cars passed him with like 2 laps to go. Two cars wrecked right in front of him on the checkered flag, but because he was a lap down and they passed the start/finish, he ended up next to last place (one car had had 3 cautions called on him so he was already off of the track). I don't care, he tried SO HARD, held his position and made people work to pass him instead of just moving over to let them pass.
In the feature, we did not invert the field so unfortunately, he was in the very back. Hubby had changed gears in the car and instead of not telling him, he told him and we all know how sensitive he is to changes. He started out very tentative and then kicked it into high gear as a few cars had to behind him due to wrecking. He ran a super awesome race and ended up 5th out of 7th giving him an overall 5th on the day.
Jr animal was a small field again with only 4 races. Our goals were the same, don't give up your position easily, run good lines, push the car. He kept second place till the very end when his friend passed him to knock him back to 2nd place. Again, don't care, he was driving the car SO well. We are still figuring out the cars so we will have him the fastest car possible once we get our poop together :) Again, no inversion of the field so he started inside behind the 1st place winner. He was instructed to hook onto her and GO with her and boy did he! Maverick finally passed him in the later part of the race, BUT he held position for as long as he could and I am over the moon proud of his third place finish. Can't wait to see how he does this next weekend in Tulsa!
Have a great week and try not to melt!
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