Early-Bird Fiji Sweat Fest 🥵🌴

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Fiji Recce Run + Hill Sprints 🌴🔥

Sun Came Out, So Did I — Double Done 🌞

Tired Legs, Torrential Rain, and Zero Desire to Add the Extra 5 Minutes

TLDR:
78-minute easy run that wasn’t easy at all. Fiji is basically a sauna with palm trees. Legs fine, fitness fine — heat absolutely brutal. Kate gifted me extra time so I’m now typing this while floating in a warm pool like a very sweaty king.

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78-minute easy run this morning… easy being very relative in Fiji.

I was up before 5am because Kate had planned a 6:30 power-walk session. So I shot out the door to get the run done before she needed to leave. Halfway through she messaged saying, “Don’t rush, I’m skipping it — go for a swim!”

Absolute angel. Because running here is a sweat bath. There’s humid, and then there’s Fiji humid.

Finished the run drenched, staggered straight to the pool, and I’m writing this while bobbing around like a soggy croissant. The pool is warm — almost too warm after a run — but honestly still bliss. Kids love it because they can stay in all day, so I’m not complaining. Total first-world-problem territory.

As for the run:
It’s amazing how hard easy runs feel here. My legs aren’t tired, fitness is great, but the humidity just smothers you. The first 20 minutes are always grim, then eventually my body accepts its fate and I find a rhythm.

Podcast of the day:
Still working through Motional Intelligence (without the E). Hugo Fry — proper Gen Z chaos. Had me laughing out loud on a dirt road at 6am like a lunatic.

But yeah… I genuinely don’t know how people in places like Houston or Florida do this year-round. Fiji is paradise, but for a runner? This is character-building stuff. Amazing to visit — absolutely not somewhere I could run daily forever.

Right — time to sink under this water before the kids take over the pool. 

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