Our Saturday-morning workouts with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group switched to 7 AM this week to beat the heat (before today they were at 8 AM). That means that I had to set my alarm for 5:30 AM this morning. I’m always tempted to just stay in bed, but in the end, I always get up and go run, and I’m always glad that I did. We had good reason to beat the heat this morning—it was seventy degrees Fahrenheit when we started, and it’s supposed to reach the upper eighties today. That might sound pretty hot, but on the radio on my drive over to the place where we have our workouts, I heard the announcer say that it was supposed to reach the upper nineties. Luckily, it looks like she was mistaken.

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