Dehydration and Blood Pressure

On thursday I headed to the gym to try and do 6 miles. It was raining semi hard so doing it outside wasn't in the cards. I haven't been there since last year (ha ha). Actually middle of November. Another reason I hate running on a treadmill is that it's so warm at my gym. Even though I was running relatively slow, keeping the HR low, I was sweating like crazy after 1 mile. I guess my body just got use to running outside in the cool weather and didn't like being back in 25C temperatures. Anyways I cut the run short and did about 4.5 miles.

Just got back from a short 4 miler outside. Couldn't keep the HR down. Got back and weighed myself and i was down 3 pounds from my normal weight. In my experience, this is usually because I'm dehydrated and anytime I have a crappy run, I can usually correlate it to a lower body weight. I usually drink a lot of fluids so this usually isn't a problem, but I've been reading a bit about blood pressure lately and mine have are a bit on the high side. Not hypertensive, but in the 135/85 range. Normal is 120/70.

Two years ago, I was normal, in fact is was exactly 120/70 cause I remember the nurse saying it was perfect. It has creeped up slowly over the past few years to its current level. Anyhow, I was reading that dehydration can cause low blood pressure, so I started thinking, that over hydration can probably lead to higher blood pressure which because I drink a lot of fluids could be a partial cause of the higher blood pressure. I've started to cut back on the fluid intake, but of course, it leads to dehydration that results in crappy runs. I just measured my bp and it was 120/80. The bottom number is a bit high though acceptable and I'd like to maintain it at this level. Hopefully I won't have to be at this level of dehydration to maintain it though.

I'm going to try and do 14 miles tomorrow. Will try to drink a bit more today.

Thanks for reading.