Discussion: too cold?
in: blairtrewin; blairtrewin > 2010-05-19
May 19, 2010 9:07 PM
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maybe its time to consider coming on up to qld Blair! We still have bright blue sky and nice temperature here :)
May 20, 2010 6:21 AM
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You misunderstand - I like the cold (especially for running) - must be the Canberra upbringing. My personal best of -31 (Ottawa, December 1989) is probably stretching it a bit, but I've had some lovely runs at -10 or thereabouts, not least on Christmas morning a few years back on snow-covered forest tracks around my brother-in-law's family farm near the Norway-Sweden border.
If I had to choose conditions to run in, it would be a sunny, still afternoon (at a low enough latitude for the sun to be meaningful) with a temperature near or slightly above 0. This never happens in Australia outside the high mountains, but the American south can be good for it (especially the higher-elevation bits, like Asheville where our office's American equivalent is). East Asia can be too, although in places like Seoul the sun struggles to make its presence felt through the pollution (and I imagine Beijing would be worse, although I've not been there in winter).
If I had to choose conditions to run in, it would be a sunny, still afternoon (at a low enough latitude for the sun to be meaningful) with a temperature near or slightly above 0. This never happens in Australia outside the high mountains, but the American south can be good for it (especially the higher-elevation bits, like Asheville where our office's American equivalent is). East Asia can be too, although in places like Seoul the sun struggles to make its presence felt through the pollution (and I imagine Beijing would be worse, although I've not been there in winter).
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