Hiking in 100F temps

Today I went hiking at the lost bluff trail at Grenada Lake and it was very warm out. I beleive when I started it was 99F with a possible heat index of 104F.
More on the trail here http://www.grenadamississippi.com/gtc_hike.htm

For some reason Runkeeper says it was 1.6 miles when the sign says its 2.4 miles. Who knows.

I jogged/walked it several days ago and did better than I did today. I think the heat had gotten to me or maybe it was the Chinese food I had for lunch???

I want to get to were I can jog all of the trail and later work on better times. Right now I can complete it in under 30 minutes no matter what. I my best time so far is 24 minutes. Today it was 26 mins.

Details below. Click on the View Details at RunKeeper link to see more

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Never too hot for a bike ride!

Ok so today it reached 99F with a heat index of probably 105F and what do I do? Go for a bike ride of course!

I biked the same path as I did last time but unfortunately as I logged the trip with RUNKEEPER on the IPHONE I noticed that it failed to log 6 miles. See I use the free RUNKEEPER app and it has sponsored ads on it. Well one of these ads popped up not a tenth of a mile down the road and it stopped tracking until the X was pressed. I noticed this when I reached the nature trail by the tennis courts at Grenada Lake.

I have now purchased the RUNKEEPER PRO app and this should never happen again. It has more feature too!

This time around was easier than the last.
I purchased one of those hydration packs to help me out this time.

In the map below, 6 miles are missing. I left where the red pin is, went to the nature trail/tennis court area and rode through the nature trail, then onto the emergency spillway area and run down and back up the 100 steps, then proceeded back and rode through the nature trail once more and back on home. The sun took a break at one point and let a few drops of rain fall onto me giving me a nice cool down.

I think next time I will try for 25 miles.

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Backyard WebCam

I set up a webcam on the backyard last week to watch Jack and make sure the heat didnt bother him.

It turns out that is really fun and interesting something to watch the dogs play.

Check it out

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