Well, would you look at the time. It’s after 11:00 and I haven’t gotten a post up yet. I have, however, managed to sift through my Twitter and Facebook feeds and see what’s going on in the world right now, which is productive, right?
I have also gotten in a run and can I just tell you that summer running sucks? It does. Big time. If I weren’t training for a half marathon in September, I would be seriously scaling back my mileage right now.
It’s commonly known among runners that your body temp spikes when you’re running, so if it’s 80 degrees out, it feels like you’re running in 90-100 temps. As a 43 year old woman in the throes of perimenopause, I get seriously warm on runs, even if it’s in the 40s or 50s out, so running in the heat is just miserable for me. This morning was no exception and I had to cut my run short because I nearly fainted. This necessitates a change in my running plans: For the next five weeks, runs will occur no later than 6:30 a.m and will be short in distance. Longer runs will have to be done on a dreadmill in an air conditioned gym, which will be dull, but necessary if I want to not die of heat stroke.
In other news, for those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you might have noticed my dozens and dozens of tweets and updates about a situation going on here at the University of Virginia, which is the flagship university of the Commonwealth and also Pete’s and my alma mater. For the past two weeks, UVA-land has been in an uproar over the forced resignation of the university’s president by the Board of Visitors (the governing body appointed by the governor of Virginia). It was completely unmerited, as pretty much everyone in the world agrees that the president has done good work in her short time here, but the board felt that she lacked “strategic dynamism.” The faculty are in full-on revolt and students, alumni, and other friends of the University of have joined in. It’s been crazy and I spend most of my waking hours following the news.
Luckily, here in Jenworld, things have been calm and pleasant. We’re just finishing up the second week of summer break and it’s been a good one. Ellie went to a terrific archaeology camp at Monticello this week and Grace has started summer school. Yes, summer school. Mini-Jen is a bit of an overachiever and decided to get a jump on 8th grade by dealing with her Health/P.E. requirement this summer so that she’ll have more room in her schedule this coming academic year. I have spent a lot of time shuttling middle school girls hither and yon this week, but it’s been worth it.
Pete’s working at home today and is cranking his iTunes. He just listened to the Cars album “Heartbeat City,” which I haven’t listened to in probably 20 years or more. I didn’t really care for the Cars back in the day, but today I enjoyed their music for pretty much the first time ever.
We’re a little over a month away from our departure for Down Under. Oh no, we’re not excited AT ALL. No one here in Jenworld talks about koalas EVER, nor would anyone make any puns about things like ‘koalty time” or “koalafications” or “high koalty” and so forth.
And that’s all I’ve got for y’all today. I’d love to hear what you’ve all been up to this week and what you have going on this weekend.
Happy Friday!
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back when I was walking in a normal 3-4 day fast walk routine (been 6 months now, oy) I had to go when it was coolish outside. that meant in summer, between 5a.m. to 6:30 a.m. was it–or I’d be walking partially in the sun, and that was a definite no-no. Sweat? Yes. I would also start to get tunnel vision if walking in the full on sun, say, later than 9a.m. It was brutal. But, I can say having to wake up at the butt-crack of dawn had it’s advantage–I got a shitload done before 10a.m. most days….this was after I passed the menopause mark and had entered in to that drab country known as post-menopause. When I was still swirling about in peri-menopause, like you are now, I was doing yoga at this fabulous yoga studio. It was air conditioned like nobodies business, and they had this incredible hot yoga room–I was sorely tempted, but hot flashes were still alarming to me at that point, so I never indulged in my hot yoga fantasy….Passing out in front of sweaty strangers could not tempt me into even trying one class….I’m so very glad to hear you are recognizing the need to run when it’s cool. It may not be fun, but it’s for a short while, and for a “good cause” lol. You know, your marathoning jones. Yee-haw!
I had Mon & Tues off to decompress from the MIL visit & take LB # 1 to Oaktown for her yearly cath. The decompression still hasn’t happened, I’m still all stabby from her visit. Cath went fine, but has made for a very long week. She is having a rough recovery and I swear, she saves all the complaining for me.
I did find a new walking trail near our new house and it is beautiful! Walking through vineyards is a nice change and seeing those little grapes grow sure is exciting!
It’s too hot and humid to run. It’s almost too hot and humid to breathe, for heaven’s sake.
That’s my excuse, and I”m sticking to it.
I don’t miss that weather. Nope, not at all. The last time I was running in heat (in San Antonio, with similar weather) 6:30am was too late in the day. Once that sun came up… time to live in the air conditioned indoors.
THe UVa situation is disturbing, not the least because the board really never articulated anything about why they dismissed her. We are acquainted with a former UVa provost who is now at our university.
I am a huge proponent for bright kids zooming through middle and high school as fast as they can and want to.
I imagine you are DYING to get those bags to the airport and fly down under!