Where I live, in Cochrane, Alberta, 25c (77f) is a hot summer day. We only get a handful of those, and those are usually days where I make an effort to get out early in the day for runs or rides. Yes, those of you from the warm States can consider me a wimp, but in my defense, I run in cold weather. Cold enough weather to use vaseline on any exposed skin.
So, I'm racing on Sunday. It's a sprint triathlon with a pool swim. I signed up for this race mainly for fun. Now that the race is a few days away, the weather forecast is fairly reliable. A high of 31c (88f). Plus, since it's a pool triathlon, the starts are in heats. I recently sent an email to change my swim time (yay! I'm a much faster swimmer then when I registered initially.) With that change, it means that my heat will be at about 11:00. So, yeah, I'm doing the bike and run at the HOTTEST time of the day.
Yeah, I'm a wimp. I have never run in temperatures that high... Good thing I don't have a goal time for this race.
What are your strategies for dealing with the heat?
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Three things Thursday
1. This is the last week of Spud's school and then we are going away for three weeks to visit family in Manitoba and Ontario.
The other thing this means is we are going from a drizzly spring to a HOT summer. Today, it's cooler then it has been in Ontario, and it's currently 25c (77f) with a humidex of 31c (88f). The warmest it's been here so far has been about 20c (68f). It was up to 40c (100f) in Ontario with the humidex when I checked earlier this week. We don't even get enough humidity to have a humidex published on our weather site. In fact, I had never even heard the term until I read about it on some blogs last year.
Yes, I know everyone in the blogosphere is already suffering from the heat. I'm about to join you and I don't know how I will handle it! 4:00 am runs?
2. I started drinking coffee again and I love it
Coffee and I have had an on again - off again affair for the last couple decades. Every so often I decide I should quit drinking it because I'm too addicted. Last time was a couple years ago because it was giving me tummy issues. Of course, I had just had my gall bladder taken out, and everything was giving me tummy issues.
I'm not even a first thing in the morning coffee drinker, but I love it mid morning or late afternoon. Right now, I just have a french press, but I lust after single serve coffee makers...
3. I still haven't settled on a blog name for my husband
I used "Mountain man" a few times, since I've called him that in real life for years. I don't feel like it's working on my blog though. Plus, Jen, one of my best bloggy buddies (who has just revived her blog!) calls her guy Mountain man too, so it seems a little weird.
So, for now, you'll continue to see him referred to as the husband, or Daddy, or whatever I feel like at the moment.
The other thing this means is we are going from a drizzly spring to a HOT summer. Today, it's cooler then it has been in Ontario, and it's currently 25c (77f) with a humidex of 31c (88f). The warmest it's been here so far has been about 20c (68f). It was up to 40c (100f) in Ontario with the humidex when I checked earlier this week. We don't even get enough humidity to have a humidex published on our weather site. In fact, I had never even heard the term until I read about it on some blogs last year.
Yes, I know everyone in the blogosphere is already suffering from the heat. I'm about to join you and I don't know how I will handle it! 4:00 am runs?
2. I started drinking coffee again and I love it
Coffee and I have had an on again - off again affair for the last couple decades. Every so often I decide I should quit drinking it because I'm too addicted. Last time was a couple years ago because it was giving me tummy issues. Of course, I had just had my gall bladder taken out, and everything was giving me tummy issues.
I'm not even a first thing in the morning coffee drinker, but I love it mid morning or late afternoon. Right now, I just have a french press, but I lust after single serve coffee makers...
3. I still haven't settled on a blog name for my husband
I used "Mountain man" a few times, since I've called him that in real life for years. I don't feel like it's working on my blog though. Plus, Jen, one of my best bloggy buddies (who has just revived her blog!) calls her guy Mountain man too, so it seems a little weird.
So, for now, you'll continue to see him referred to as the husband, or Daddy, or whatever I feel like at the moment.
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