Anxiety Attack

It did not help that as I was driving to our 6:30pm run, the guy on the radio reminded me that this was the hottest July on record. For some reason, I have not acclimated to the 100 degree temps at all. I'm OK in the mornings but being out in the full on sun and heat just isn't working. Today we were to run 4 miles warm up, 2 miles steady state (that being strictly effort based and not worrying about actual pace) and 4 miles cool down. I figured I'd be good for maybe 8-8:10 for the steady state - maybe!
As we got started we ran up a slight rise in the sun and I paniked in my head thinking "I'm not even going to make it 4 miles). I ran with Brandon and we decided to stick to an easy pace for the first 4. Appaerently that was nobody elses plan as they took off for the first 4 miles. By mile 3 though, I noticed that the front group was coming back to us.
Brandon was thinking 8:15 was doable for the steady state so we started carefully, planning to pick up the pace on the second mile if we felt OK. First mile 7:59!! Second mile 7:59!! I was really happy as we had not being pushing very hard to get that done. I thought I'd do the last 4 miles cool down but my legs and head weren't in it so I cut it a little short and did 3.25 instead.
So overall, a good run - especially being that it was Tuesday and Tuesdays aren't usually very good to me.

I am noticing it gets dark faster now and there is often a nice breeze in the evening. I can totally live with that.

Diet update - I'm down to 144...yay!!!