Midday at ~30°C was silly… but, a running chap at my work retires this week and wanted an easy nice social group run as a send-off, so I joined with a few mates (Mark was meant to make it but got held up). There was a slight breeze which was nice and we kept the pace very easy, but the retiring chap felt a bit wobbly early on so we dropped the pace, then had a shaded break after a few kms. He had to walk a few hundred meters on the return to work so we all slowed with him. I carried on for almost another 6k a bit quicker, but the heat started getting to me so it was hard work, HR was high for the pace as a result. 10.8k in the end, that was enough! I decided that strides would have likely killed me, so I missed these!