It was HOT today! Even with a breeze blowing through the house the temperature was still in excess of 80 degrees. Outside it was way hotter still, so it was going to be a hot run whatever.
I opted to run inside and decided that there should be no mind-tricks today: I would be happy with five miles. Sticking with the intervals of late I started with 6, 6, 7, 8, 6 to warm up (huh?) before repeating 7, 8, 9, 6 four times. This was definitely exertion, but not by comparison with some of the recent sessions in view of the heat.
A hastily eaten banana ahead of the start of the session thankfully caused me no discomfort and having completed 5.25 miles in 44 minutes (7.16mph average) I went for a very long, cold shower!