More on Hydration.

I discovered this morning that going for a run without drinking much water the day before feels like absolute horror! Because tap water here in Adelaide is disgusting (I live in Melbourne, but I'm in Adelaide for a week on a work project), I've been drinking from boxed water from the supermarket. It's perfectly fine, but in limited supply since I only bought one box, haha. So I probably only drank about a litre of water yesterday, which is 2 less than usual.

This morning's jog was horrible! I even felt dizzy at one point. I've got a headache right now, but it's eased up a bit now that I've had a swim and a nice cold shower and about 4 glasses of water in the past 20 minutes.

Urgh. Failure!

I pulled out of today. It was because of a) how hot it was today (something like 36c), and b) the fact that I had no way to stay hydrated. I could have carried a bottle of water, but that would have gotten annoying. I tried my backpack, but it was too heavy and bounced around a lot without a waist strap, so that was no good either. I'm going to be in Adelaide next weekend so that's out too, but the following week I'm going to buy a CamelBak water backpack and see how that goes. They're pretty well priced, so that's good.

The Extra Long Hard Road

Tomorrow, I plan to do the following route. Without my dog! This will be a combination walk/jog, but I'll be aiming to jog further than I walk, and try to keep each walk distance shorter than the jog distance. Of course, The most I've ever done with that method was 6km a couple of weeks ago, so it remains to be seen if I can do it for 17km!

The Long Hard Road

Man, been a while since I've updated this blog!

So today - and on Monday just passed - I took my good mate Buster out with me for a jog. Poor little blighter can't last as long as me! I tell ya, dogs just ain't they used to be! Consequently I've literally cut my jogs short both times just to make sure my dog didn't pass out haha.

By the way these two jogs were on top of the jogs that Fi and I do each morning during the week.

I wanted to turn down Sesame Street (haha, I know!) from Blackburn Rd and continue back up to Lawrence Rd, but I was pretty sure Buster wouldn't like that. On the bright side, while I may not have ended up doing it, I'm glad that I felt like doing it and wasn't desperate to get home and sit down!