Hat Hair

While I was running and doing my workout today, the heat got to me. I had to stop my workout and walk over to where the shade was because I could feel my head start to get very hot and my mind start to shut down. I had to shut my eyes and try to make it to the shade which was only about forty feet away. I barely made it to the shade and my body shut down and I just laid on the cold concrete waiting for my brain to gain back it's normal function. I turned out to be okay even though I didn't finish my workout after that. (though I tried and felt the same thing coming on so I called it a day)

This has led me to ask myself why this happened to me today when it has never to my current knowledge happened to me before. Everything was about the same today as it was the last time I ran, the temperature may have been a couple of degrees hotter but nothing that would make me feel so much worse. It was also the same time of day.

My first guess as to possibly why this had happened is that, my hair was previously acting as a hat. It could have been keeping the sun out of my face and possibly keeping me just cool enough to function properly. As you can see by the picture, my hair was covering most of my head, as well as my neck and forehead. Maybe.

The other reason I can think of is that maybe my water consumption prior to working out was less than before. This is probably what happened. Duh.

CH