Well that was embarrassing

Yesterday, I joined in on my second Summer Prehab course, which took place at a local high school track. For those of you who don't live in the Kansas City area, it was 94* yesterday. I'm not sure what the head index was. Needless to say, it was HOT.

I brought my water bottle like a good runner, even putting sports drink mix in it rather than just water, thinking that I could make up for all the sweating I knew I was going to be doing.

While it was hot, the workout was designed to let us take lots of breaks, which was good. However, my water bottle was not filled with ice cold drink, and that turned out to be not good.

Towards the end of the workout, I was feeling the drain from the sun and took our final round of drills extra slow. Had I not lingered to get the coach's opinion of my marathon training plan, I probably would have been ok. However, those extra 10 minutes out in the sun got to me. In the middle of my conversation with the coach, I got light headed, had to sit down and then had an overwhelming wave of emotion which made me start crying.

Seriously, it was super embarrassing. Luckily, everyone was super nice and had me lay down, got me an ice pack and wouldn't let me move until I didn't look so pale anymore.

Then I sat in my car with the AC on for a few minutes before heading home.

Sigh.

Next week, when it's 10* cooler, I'll be over prepared with a cooler AND a cooling towel.