Change of Tactics in Heat

Today:
Purpose: heat conditioning
Distance:  10.7 km
Time:  59' 36"
Rate:  5' 34" per km
Recovery: 2 x 5 minutes in river
Weather:  sunny, temp 34 degrees, humidity 20%, wind light west 10 kmph

Week:  62.95 km,   Dec:  288.6 km,  Year:  5133.5 km

Very warm today by mid morning, so I decided I still needed to run without compromising Saturday's mountain run up Mt Tennent.
I jogged easy down to the river and got in for 5 minutes, enough time to cool down core temperature. River water temperature near surface would be around 19-20 degrees, a couple of degrees cooler about a metre below surface.
Then I soaked running singlet in the water & ran home quite cool for the 6.9 kms. All good.
After lunch, being a Friday, I took the car back to Pine Is and ran another 3.8 kms before jumping back in the water cool down again. A split easy day, nothing too big in the conditions and wary in the heat. Worked out well, and could have easily been repeated a couple more times if necessary to get distance done in the middle of the day.
It was a hot day later in the afternoon with the temp reaching 37 degrees, must be summer at last.