{"id":9564,"date":"2026-10-07T19:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/?p=9564"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:11:50","slug":"finally-some-cooler-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/finally-some-cooler-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Some Cooler Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beachy Head Half Marathon 2026 Training Block - Week 9\/11<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a difference a change in the weather makes. After what feels like weeks of daily temperatures around 20\u00b0C and seemingly endless humidity, tonight finally brought something a little more like autumn. <strong>14\u00b0C and, thankfully, the humidity had disappeared.<\/strong> Suddenly, Zone 2 running felt a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261007_184917-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261007_184917-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261007_184917-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261007_184917-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261007_184917-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261007_184917-2048x1153.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dankew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261007_184917-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight\u2019s <strong>9km<\/strong> was an absolute breeze. I stayed comfortably within my endurance zone for the entire run and managed to sit almost exactly on the suggested <strong>6:05\/km<\/strong> pace without having to constantly adjust things. No slowing down because my heart rate was creeping up, no speeding up because I\u2019d dropped off the pace - just a steady, comfortable rhythm from start to finish. And that made all the difference. The run seemed to fly by, and before I really had time to think about it, 9km was done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow will be a rest day before what I think will be my <strong>last set of hill sprints<\/strong>, which I\u2019m planning to do Friday morning. After that, the focus shifts towards getting ready for the Beachy Head Half. 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After what feels like weeks of daily temperatures around 20\u00b0C and seemingly endless humidity, tonight finally brought something a little more like autumn. 14\u00b0C and, thankfully, the humidity had disappeared. 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