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RE: May As Well
Autumn? Where the bloody hell did Autumn go?
May comes to an end, and what an end! Up until just a few days ago, the 27th to be exact, the month had been not only the hottest ever recorded since record keeping began here, but was a staggering 5 degrees Celsius above average for the month. Even the Climate Council, with their dire warnings about hell on earth as the last final nail in the 400ppm CO2 coffin was firmly hammered home were gob smacked at how high the temperatures have been here in Sydney in particular.
Meanwhile, we poor innocent victims of global warming had been taking advantage of late autumnal temperatures in the mid to high twenties, enjoying what was effectively a very late and very long summer with days at the beach and al fresco evenings of gins and tonic and seafood canapés. If this is global warming, I have no quarrel with it.
That however all came to a sudden and freezing end three days ago when summer suddenly realised that she was likely to miss the last train if she didn't leave immediately, grabbing her salad bowl and the unfinished bottle of chilled Riesling and rushing out the door without as much as a 'by your leave'. Winter, seeing its opportunity, rushed holus bolus in to take summer's place. And so the sudden plummet to freezing temperatures with none of the usual moderating autumnal acclimatisation has made life miserably cold, and running doubly so.
As a result this morning my early morning 5 a.m. jog saw me hit the streets wearing a second, long-sleeved top and my Point 2 Pinnacle beanie to make the run bearable. Readers more used to a colder clime will doubtless be chuckling when I say that the temperature was a mere 8 degrees C, perhaps even considered 'mild' by some, but after such a long and warm summer, the sudden loss of ten degrees to our overnight lows and daytime maximums has come as something of a shock to the system.
The first two kilometres of my run were utterly miserable, but I at least by then had warmed a little and was able to dispense with the long-sleeved top. Conveniently for the dispensing of layers I was running the local streets and it was no problem to run past my house where I could drop the top, so to speak. The beanie however stayed firmly over my ears for the entire run. I added just a kilometre at a time to the outing, having no real desire to be out there, but wanting to get my five kilometres completed just to prove to myself that the colder weather was not going to hinder my training. Had I not needed to head home and get ready for work, I could have stayed out longer, but I covered 5.2km and felt happy with that given the appalling Antarctic conditions... ahem.
OK, so May was a mixed bag, but let's see what June now brings.
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May As Well
