Althouse: Contemplating the sunrise run....

December 18, 2019

Contemplating the sunrise run....

37 comments:

rehajm said...: I'd tap out...; 12/18/19, 6:28 AM
rehajm said...: At three the snot in your nose freezes up to much...; 12/18/19, 6:29 AM
Danno said...: It is 3 below in St. Paul, but I see it is 17 below in Luck Wisconsin about 70 miles northeast of here.; 12/18/19, 6:31 AM
Temujin said...: We had a storm come through here last night. It dropped the temps way down. Right now it's a chippy 61 degrees with a tropical breeze. I was in Michigan last weekend and was reminded why I moved south years ago. On the other hand, I'm still a Detroit Lions fan so I dragged that hideous disease down here with me. Ugh.; 12/18/19, 6:33 AM
rhhardin said...: Feels Like doesn't apply to bike riders and probably runners. They make their own wind.

Run downwind if you like.; 12/18/19, 6:36 AM
JML said...: Has Meade thought about buying you a Peleton for Christmas?; 12/18/19, 6:36 AM
Beasts of England said...: 3, 15, 18. Fibonacci-ish.; 12/18/19, 6:37 AM
David Begley said...: Steve Doocey and a former US Attorney are praising to the skies the tough measures taken by the FISC.

Has anyone on TV noted how weak and pathetic this is? That the FISC didn’t set a Show Cause hearing?

What is going on?; 12/18/19, 6:38 AM
buwaya said...: Doesn't that make you want to go off and conquer something tropical?; 12/18/19, 6:38 AM
rehajm said...: ...a good morning for the Peloton™ :-)...

BTW, did you catch the Peloton Girl spoof commercial Ryan Reynolds did for his gin company?

The Gift that Doesn't Give Back...; 12/18/19, 6:39 AM
Rt41Rebel said...: It's been in the 80s the last couple days here in Coral Gables, which is close to record setting for this time of year. --Rt1Rebel; 12/18/19, 6:43 AM
AllenS said...: 17 below also in Star Prairie WI. Got the wood burner fired up. Think I'll throw another small shovel full of coal in.; 12/18/19, 6:43 AM
rehajm said...: Feels Like doesn't apply to bike riders and probably runners.

Yes. As you can't have unprotected skin for long it's largely irrelevant to anyone outside for more than few minutes.; 12/18/19, 6:44 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Doesn't that make you want to go off and conquer something tropical?"

No. After today, it's going to be in the 30s and low 40s for the next 10 days. To have one day off every week or so doesn't upset the flow too much.

I don't think running when it's hot is that great, but I will do it when summer comes around here, where I live and where I have my sunrise run. There will be enough running in heat when the natural time for it arises. Right now, I'm encountering the cold that nature is dishing out. There's meaning and accomplishment in that. In that light, traveling to a warm place is more like just staying inside, which is what I am doing today. The "feels like" of -17 was enough to make me skip a day.; 12/18/19, 6:48 AM
Temujin said...: Traveling to a warm place is not like staying inside. Spoken like a northerner who is adamant about staying inside. This warm place has the smell of the ocean in the air. The breeze caresses, not damages. And it makes you want to stay outside all day long. In this environment, at this time of year, staying inside is the problem.; 12/18/19, 6:51 AM
rhhardin said...: Today the House holds a vote of no confidence, in our new parliamentary system.; 12/18/19, 6:53 AM
Oso Negro said...: I guess "liking" -17 is a Wisconsin thing.; 12/18/19, 6:59 AM
320Busdriver said...: NOT looking forward to Mr Poodles inevitable walk this am. And, yes, he must go. Probably the tartan jacket for him and the full face mask for me. Probably a good day for 4pm HIIT class at the gym where I can sweat like its 1999..Burpees anyone?; 12/18/19, 7:01 AM
AllenS said...: I like -17 more than -25, that's for sure.; 12/18/19, 7:02 AM
MadisonMan said...: The wind was pretty unforgiving on my walk into work. And it was mostly at my back!; 12/18/19, 7:05 AM
Birches said...: I'd be out unless I was training for something. I have run 10 miles in 5 degrees, but I was training for a marathon and I only had certain days set aside for long runs.; 12/18/19, 7:09 AM
David Begley said...: Fox and Friends, “a strong letter” and “unprecedented “ “serious” “bracing” re FISC court letter.

How can these people be so stupid?

The remedy is a contempt hearing!; 12/18/19, 7:09 AM
Original Mike said...: "How can these people be so stupid.
The remedy is a contempt hearing"

Where's your spine?

The remedy is prison.; 12/18/19, 7:16 AM
Meade said...: "Today the House holds a vote of no confidence, in our new parliamentary system."

Yes, Prime Minister Trump will need to call for an election. And therefore, Dems, never send to know for whom the impeachment bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

In a landslide of, by and for the People.; 12/18/19, 7:27 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: Today is cold in soon to be sunny PHX - 47, with a high of 67.

I miss the snow. Kinda. But not the shoveling. My partner has enough metal in her that she doesn’t miss the cold at all. But she grew up in Las Vegas, and moved to PHX in her mid 20s. Calls herself a “desert rat”. One problem with that is that she definitely doesn’t want to look out on the desert from her house, which means that we really cannot buy a lot and build on it. Took her out looking at lots last spring, and it became quickly apparent that we weren’t going to find a lot that she could live on. She explained that the people who love looking out on the desert mostly come from the Midwest, like from Chicago, or Madison. She wants to see nicely manicured green, and not dirty brown desert.

So we are doing our final walkthrough today on a gorgeous brand new house in a beautiful subdivision, with the McMansions packed much too closely together. Love all the upgrades, but hate the price tag. About the same size as the old house, but each room is a tiny bit smaller, because we will now have a guest suite and den downstairs.; 12/18/19, 7:28 AM
Original Mike said...: "She wants to see nicely manicured green, and not dirty brown desert."

One of my problems with the desert is nothing hides the trash.; 12/18/19, 7:35 AM
Birches said...: I grew up in AZ Bruce and completely agree with your partner. Grass and a pool, that's what I want to see. We lived in an area of Mesa with irrigation. Everyone still had huge grass lawns. The temp at our house was at least ten degrees cooler than over at my in laws in concrete and rocks suburbia Chandler.; 12/18/19, 7:38 AM
rehajm said...: She explained that the people who love looking out on the desert mostly come from the Midwest, like from Chicago, or Madison

...and those of us from the East coast! Don't forget us. I could stare at the desert all day- road runners, looking for the biggest saguaro, and those birds that sit on top of them. How do they do that and not get poked?

I must confess: Most of my desert gazing is done from the green grass of the fairway.

I must confess: Sometimes its looking for my ball in the desert.; 12/18/19, 7:52 AM
tcrosse said...: Over at Spiked! there's a piece which I didn't bother to read, but which has a wonderful title. "Corbyn and Blair: Two Cheeks of the Same Arse". Cheeky!; 12/18/19, 8:47 AM
Kevin said...: How cold was it out there today?

It was, like, negative 17 or something.; 12/18/19, 9:20 AM
Maillard Reactionary said...: rhhardin on cyclists: "They make their own wind."

So does Eric Swalwell.

OK, OK, I promise, that's my last Eric Swalwell joke.; 12/18/19, 10:05 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "Traveling to a warm place is not like staying inside. Spoken like a northerner who is adamant about staying inside. This warm place has the smell of the ocean in the air. The breeze caresses, not damages. And it makes you want to stay outside all day long. In this environment, at this time of year, staying inside is the problem."

1. I said *In that light, traveling to a warm place is more like just staying inside" — "in that light" means in the one way I've just talked about, it is similar, not that there are no other ways in which it is different!

2. I'm obviously NOT "adamant about saying inside." Today was the first time I've stayed in because it seemed too cold. I've gone out when it was 9° and it "felt like" -1. I just got done telling you that I want to experience the weather as it is served up by nature each day. How is that about staying inside?!

3. You're the one with the idea that you have to search for mild weather to go outside. I think that makes you sound indoorsy. You want the outdoors to feel like a temperature you'd set on your thermostat, but then you say outdoors will be different in that there will be smells and breezes that you don't get indoors. That's just you being a little less indoorsy, not me being indoorsy. You admit your problem of needing to stay indoors in winter, but it's not what I do, not at all. I like the season change and I am maximizing my experience of the differences.

4. As for traveling to experience smells, I can't do that. I have almost no sense of smell, so that's irrelevant to me.

5. The breeze may caress and not damage, but these hot places tend to be about sun exposure, and I am not physically made for that. I have untannable light skin and blue eyes and the harsh sun is mostly brutal for me.; 12/18/19, 11:05 AM
Original Mike said...: "You're the one with the idea that you have to search for mild weather to go outside. I think that makes you sound indoorsy."

I was thinking of another word. Also ends in 'y'.; 12/18/19, 11:20 AM
RMc said...: Typical early-morning conversation at my house:

Wife: It's so *cold*!
Me: It's still December.; 12/18/19, 11:54 AM
AllenS said...: 25º tomorrow, and 32º Friday.; 12/18/19, 11:58 AM
John henry said...: 85 here but with the wind chill feels like 83

And next summer when it is 100 degrees in Madison, it will be 85,feeling like 83 here.

Somebody has to live in the cold but it doesn't have to be me.

I just found I will not be doing a project involving 3 weeks in edmonton Canada. I seldom smile about things like this.

Sometimes I make an exception.

John Henry; 12/18/19, 12:49 PM
Meade said...: "And next summer when it is 100 degrees in Madison, it will be 85,feeling like 83 here. "

Pretty sure it never got hotter than 85 in Madison last summer.; 12/18/19, 1:48 PM