My 12 mile long run this weekend was done in steamin' hot Tampa, FL. I know Amber is running in hot weather and what she might describe as a dry sauna, but let me tell you that Tampa is a wet sauna. As soon as you walk out of an air-conditioned building you are slammed with a steamy wall of hot air and you take a deep breath because it is hard to actually breathe! I woke up at 5:30 am (after only three alcoholic beverages the day before, topped with too much time in the sun and about four and a half hours of sleep) to get out the door while it was still dark outside. The darkness helped slightly, but it just meant that the sun wasn't beating down on you; its not like it made it actually "cool" or anything like that. I ran down Bayshore Blvd. into the city and explored a few different dead ends and then ran back up Bayshore towards MacDill Air Force Base. I really only ran by time (and I counted a ten minute breakfast break at Starbucks that was imperative since I couldn't turn on the lights in the kitchen to get anything before the run b/c there were 4 people sleeping on the floor) so I don't know if I quite got 12 miles, but at least I know that I ran for 2+ hours and sweated at least as much as I normally would in Pittsburgh!
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That sounds like it was a painfully hot run! What are you up to in Florida? It sounds like you're having fun. It hasn't been too hot here lately...although it was 105 a few days last week (ick).
Talk to you later!
Katie's (Nathan's sister) bachelorette party was there. We flew into Tampa and stayed Friday night with one of her friends who lives there and then Saturday night we stayed at a resort down in Siesta Key. We got a lot of bad weather from Gustav, so it wasn't ideal for a beach weekend, but a fun time...
That sounds fun though! When is she getting married again? She is a really cool girl. I was watching House Hunters on HGTV last week and they were looking at homes on Bayshore Blvd. in Miami - it was cool to see where you might have been run. Very coincidental.
Their wedding is on October 11 - I'm getting excited for it!
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