Devadiva - I hear ya about the heat! It is really starting to warm up/be humid here too. The vest doesn't bounce or bother you in the heat? I had tried a water belt for a while, but hated the bouncing. I moved to a hand held water bottle, with the strap that goes around your hand. Doesn't bother me as much a I thought it would.
I've been really stressed about my running. I ran a half marathon on May 5th, then slacked for about two weeks only running a couple of times. Then I tried to get back into the swing of things with a long run and developed a foot pain that made me stop running for a week until I saw a Doctor. He thinks he fixed the problem, and told me I could run again the next day (this was last week), so I ran a few times but still had foot pain. So they said to take some time off before trying to run again - I'm now on day 2 of no running/hiking.
The thing is I've got a full marathon in October, and my first training week officially starts tomorrow. I planned to run on Tuesday. So.... Things freaking me out are:
1- I hope my foot is better by Tuesday.
2- my weekly mileage for the past few weeks has been like an average of 6-8 miles. My first training week originally had me running 19 miles...but I tweaked it a bit to make it 17 miles. I'm really worried that jumping up so high in mileage after some slow weeks is going to lead to injury
(even though i was running 21-22 mile weeks just prior to the half marathon). With this structured program, if I start with lower mileage I don't know how I'm going to catch up, KWIM?