Time for another run up to Mt. Parker. I expected difficult day as the morning heat and humidity was far for pleasant.

I decided to start easy. I jogged along the road towards Mt. Parker Road, the usual slalom among the morning commuters. Once on Mt. Parker I started my patient run up the hill.

I tried to maintain steady pace. The longer I was running the more comfortable I was feeling. For the first almost 2km it was quite hard on my ears – the cicadas we seriously loud. But gradually that sound went away.

My steady pace got me up to Tai Fung Au in still decent shape. Thought that on a day like this I would struggle from here on. But the cloud I ran into once up here definitely helped with some cooling. It was really humid but it did not feel that hot.
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It was back to the late evening Tuesday road run this week. Good timing as doing a proper morning run was close to impossible thanks to the morning rainstorm (first black rainstorm of the year…).

When I got out it was clear from the very beginning that even though it is almost 10pm it is pretty warm and humid… Here is the screenshot from Hk Observatory that I took at the end of my run some one hour later…

Hot and humid – summer is here

My legs were still a bit heavy after Saturday. But I hoped that after a while I will get them going. Plan was to go easy for about 20km without too much climbing.

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This was Stairmaster Twins Saturday. As I had no plan racing I went for the next best thing – helping with the race. At the same time as this was Saturday it was also a day to go for some decent mileage.

So the plan was to run early morning to Parkview, pick up the marking ribbons from Shane, do the forerunning duties and mark the course all the way to the mid point check point. And after closing the CP run back home. Routes to be decided. Distance planned somewhere around 30km.

It was stormy rainy wet wet morning. So first plan adjustment came right at the beginning. I wanted to get to Parkview with feet at least somehow dry. So I ditched the ideas of running over the hills and/or on the contour trail. I ran there on the road – my Tuesday evening route till Bowen and then turn uphill towards Parkview. Nice, fresh, pacy morning run, about 8km done.
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I had to skip my planned Wednesday night track session. The thunderstorm was just a bit too much for my comfort. So for this morning run my legs were quite fresh and so was the post storm air.

By the time I got out of the house there was almost no rain. It was very humid but otherwise pleasant, overcast morning. Quick glance towards Mt. Parker revealed that I would reach the clouds quite early into my run. All set.

As usual I begun my warm up jog along the King’s Road, some 800m before the actual start of the climb. Once I reached the Mt. Parker Road I started my push up the hill. I kept steady running pace and my legs felt good. I thought that I am simply going too easy. My watch was telling me otherwise – pace was decent. The weather was definitely helping.
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This is the “easy Tuesday” so instead of quick evening road run comes easy morning trail run.

I love these morning outings on the trails right in my backyard. I expected that today might be difficult to get out in the morning. Therefore I set my alarm clock for several alarms in 10 minutes intervals. After first 2 alarms I tried to convince myself that it would be more sensible not to wake up and go for evening run instead. At third alarm I looked out of the window, saw the weather is decent (meaning no thunderstorms etc) and decided to go for it. As it is warmer and more humid now I decided to take 2 bottles of water with me. One hand held with Nuun, another one was the soft flask filled with water only – and that one went into the back pocket of my jersey.
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