Punta Cana running experiment

Punta Cana is an area 40 minutes from where I live. The school is there and since today my youngest daughter had a presentation, I planned to run there after the event (which lasted about only 10 minutes).
I always run in the hotel area or at the beach. Making a change definitely was something that I needed and a lot!
The hotel and the beach are somehow private areas. You can not access to the beach if you aren't staying in a hotel.
I can't run on the streets since there are not sidewalks, in fact the area is underdeveloped despite the luxury hotels that also you can find.
That makes the area completely unattractive to run outside, in fact even in Punta Cana where the airport is and where Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias have their houses, there are no streets only the highway. Writing this I realized that it is maybe me who is scared of everything, but running on lonely roads where you don't see anybody walking and me there, with shorts, mmm not precisely the perfect scenery to run.
I explain all this so you value how nice it is to feel save running in developed and safe places even while sometimes its spooky...
For all this (I guess)when I was ready to start and saw my HR monitor, it was in 120 and I hadn't even started. This is incredible, looks like this new situation made my heart rate rise that
much!!! My mind immediately traveled to a marathon day, when despite of had been training it could happen and make me fail.
The surface the was another fact to learn. How nice it is to run on which
I think should be similar to a trail surface. From time to time when I reached an entrance and had to climb the road, I felt like if each of my legs were a ton. I thought running on trails should be nice and easy for the legs, but is much more than I imagined. The road is covered with some type of very short grass.
The first miles were fine despite the high Heart rate, which never went down. Over the last miles I was so concentrated on the road and with running as ever. It should be that the road is straight and the landscape is all the same. Some rain join me from time to time, it gave me another fact to rise the HR since breathing moisture makes it harder to catch the oxygen. Time flew!!
Forget the pace, it was low, well, as usual, but not at this HR. Over 11:00 per mile with a 160hr grrr, total 6 miles.

This morning I was at school with my funky shoes and didn't notice any strange looks, I am thinking that here in the tropical weather, in a Latin country, you certainly see many funky persons and nobody cares.
But still when I was using my back pack and cap I felt like an alien, hahaha as I said before, this is not for fancy people. I shouldn't worry to much is them who got scared!!
This was a great morning, my body is feeling great I will have to make one or two of my weekly runs there.

Thanks for reading and visiting me have a nice weekend!!!!!!!!