It was African and hippy running at the same time.

Sundays run was notable for two things. The heat and a reminder about the purity of running. It took me less than two minutes to pull on my Spyridons, grab my sun gigs, say goodbye and head out the door. No expensive sports gear. No expensive gym membership. No need for a vehicle of any type. Just shoes and old threads. I even decided to forgo starting the GPS. 

But bugger it was hot, even under the trees. It felt good though. It felt good to sweat through the roasting landscape, it was African and hippy running at the same time.

I am a Phoenix now, the mythical bird that rises from the ashes of it's fiery death. Legend has it that it could spontaneously heal itself and is a symbol of immortality, resurrection, and regeneration.

Along with the heat I could relate to all these things. I continue to return to running fitness after my death by knee injury. I am healing. I am resurrecting and regenerating.

heat

[heet] 

noun

1.

the state of a body perceived as having or generating a high degree of warmth.

2.

the condition or quality of being hot.

3.

the degree of hotness; temperature: extreme heat.

4.

the sensation of warmth or hotness: unpleasant heat.

5.

a bodily temperature higher than normal: the heat of a fever; the feeling of heat caused by physical exertion.

6. a hot condition of the atmosphere or physical environment; hot season or weather.

8. A period of hot weather.

heat

O.E. hætu, hæto, from P.Gmc. *khaitin- "heat," from *khaitaz "hot" (cf. O.S. hittia, O.N. hiti, O.Fris. hete, Ger. hitze "heat," Goth. heito "fever"). The same root is the source of O.E. hat "hot" and hæða "hot weather." The verb is from O.E. hætan, from P.Gmc. *khaitijanam.