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rebeccmeisterI think I must have lost any heat acclimation I might have had.
I feel like this sign in Albany is perhaps overly emblematic.
But I was heartened to see this sign out in the countryside:
Of course, another contributing factor to feeling uninterested in doing much of anything is having put in a good 50 miles of bicycling today. The junior rowers had a swim/float test, so I biked out to the park where that took place. It has been a LONG time since I've ridden my bike just for fun. Too long.
The park we visited, Grafton State Park, contains a series of small lakes, so we were able to take over one of the small lakes for our purposes. We also brought along one of our rowing shells so rowers could practice getting back in the boat after flipping. While we were getting ready for the flip test, there were some moments where the empty boat drifted around a little on its own, looking like this:
I didn't actually swim - I mostly just took pictures and talked with people. Then I turned around and rode home. There's a net elevation gain up to Grafton, so the return trip was mostly downhill. Altogether, it seems like this ride could function as an analog to the South Mountain ride in Phoenix, although in this case there's the possibility of going for a refreshing swim at the halfway point. And the nature of the climbing is different - generally, much more extended, at a much more gradual gradient, with just one exception of a steep bit on the escape from Troy.
On the way home, I stopped by a produce stand and bought some strawberries and tomatoes, which is good because I used up the previous quart of strawberries last night to make mini-pies:
I suppose at least I'm not trying to bake anything today.
Tomorrow I'm going to take the work computer back to work, and will start working in my office again several days a week.
It's weird to see where different parts of the country are right now, in terms of the ongoing pandemic. We're still seeing new cases, mostly in the single-digits right now, although that could change in another week's time. It actually seems to me like we may manage to limp along here, although clearly a lot depends on asymptomatic spread, and it sounds like asymptomatic spread is extensive.
I feel like this sign in Albany is perhaps overly emblematic.
But I was heartened to see this sign out in the countryside:
Of course, another contributing factor to feeling uninterested in doing much of anything is having put in a good 50 miles of bicycling today. The junior rowers had a swim/float test, so I biked out to the park where that took place. It has been a LONG time since I've ridden my bike just for fun. Too long.
The park we visited, Grafton State Park, contains a series of small lakes, so we were able to take over one of the small lakes for our purposes. We also brought along one of our rowing shells so rowers could practice getting back in the boat after flipping. While we were getting ready for the flip test, there were some moments where the empty boat drifted around a little on its own, looking like this:
I didn't actually swim - I mostly just took pictures and talked with people. Then I turned around and rode home. There's a net elevation gain up to Grafton, so the return trip was mostly downhill. Altogether, it seems like this ride could function as an analog to the South Mountain ride in Phoenix, although in this case there's the possibility of going for a refreshing swim at the halfway point. And the nature of the climbing is different - generally, much more extended, at a much more gradual gradient, with just one exception of a steep bit on the escape from Troy.
On the way home, I stopped by a produce stand and bought some strawberries and tomatoes, which is good because I used up the previous quart of strawberries last night to make mini-pies:
I suppose at least I'm not trying to bake anything today.
Tomorrow I'm going to take the work computer back to work, and will start working in my office again several days a week.
It's weird to see where different parts of the country are right now, in terms of the ongoing pandemic. We're still seeing new cases, mostly in the single-digits right now, although that could change in another week's time. It actually seems to me like we may manage to limp along here, although clearly a lot depends on asymptomatic spread, and it sounds like asymptomatic spread is extensive.
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Date: 2020-06-22 02:34 pm (UTC)The pies have been highly enjoyable. :^)
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Date: 2020-06-21 03:52 pm (UTC)I suspect that it's not so much that you lost your heat tolerance, it's that every single residential building in the northeast, no matter how old it is, is *uniquely* ill-suited for hot and humid weather. Truly, it is the stupidest part of the country.
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Date: 2020-06-22 02:36 pm (UTC)As far as house setups go, this one isn't as terrible as it could be, thanks to the ceiling fans in every room. The last place I lived in Arizona (Dogtown) wasn't all that much better, although we did have central a/c there.
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Date: 2020-06-21 07:07 pm (UTC)Did you have humidity acclimation? ISTR most of the places you lived before were hot and dry or cool and wet. Though I probably forgot some.
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Date: 2020-06-21 07:13 pm (UTC):^)
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