Thanks! I took that one myself, eyeballing reflection from a light into my camera while trying not to shiver too much. I've since upgraded my camera gear, so the next time we get snow, I can hopefully get some better shots more easily.
Hahaha :) Are you sure that is not just because you are a CRAZY person?
(It's been really sunny here, and still quite cold - but my office is madly overheated and the sun shines in all afternoon, so I spend most of the day in pseudo-August, and then come out to sort-of-March *g*. It confuses my body!)
(PS: I didn't friend you before, because I thought you were crossposting everything, but then I realised you weren't! So.)
Well, it's entirely possible I am a crazy person. :-) But Colorado is exceptionally arid, and 40 degrees in low humidity with the sun shining feels quite warm. I don't know how it is in England, but when I lived in Maryland - much closer to the coast, and much more humid - 40 degrees felt horribly cold and damp. When I lived there, it didn't feel "warm" in the winter unless it was at least 65, which was rare.
And I don't really crosspost, unless I have some really cool photos I want to make sure everyone sees! Actually, I'm struggling with the whole identity question right now. Where do I post about food? Where about politics? (Hell, I'm thinking about starting a new politics-only blog.) I am confused and splintery.
I don't mind where you post, so long as I can read it all! *g*
More seriously, it's going to depend on your audience; are your fannish readers interested in your food posts? I know I usually am, with anyone's food-talk. And is this journal your "RL" journal or your "outdoors" journal for most of your readers, because that's going to affect things, too.
Yeah, the food talk has been going in the other journal. This actually was my first lj, and the people I friended here were mostly from the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre, where I hung out in the 90s. So not really the outdoorsy crowd, but that's what I posted here because that's what I had to post :-) Then there is the locked/filtered stuff on the other journal, for people who know my real name and I feel relatively close to, and some people from here who have me friended there, too, because that's where I post most frequently.
It's a dilemma! It's a conundrum! It's a mystery to me!
Hey, aren't you on goodreads? I just joined. How do I find you? (Or you can find me - I joined under my fannish email. *sigh* again with the partitioning.)
I'm actually not on goodreads, despite trinityofone's best arm-twisting tactics *g*. I don't feel like I have time for *another* site, and I get more recs from LJ than I can keep up with! It does sound like fun, though.
And we're generally fairly humid (eg right now: 93% humidity and -5C, er, 23F?), so yeah, 40F would be not terribly comfortable - especially with any sort of breeze. I suspect that almost anywhere in the UK would be humid compared to Colorado, simply because we're surrounded by water. Even where I live, pretty much in the middle, we're only about seventy miles from the sea. And there's not really hills high enough to create a really serious rainshadow effect.
Oh,that brings back some memories... back in the day, I recall when it got above 35 or so was when the jackets (as opposed to the *coats* donchaknow) went on. It never occurred to me that it was the low humidity that made it feel warmer. I always figured it was the high altitude just getting me that much closer to the sun :-)
Well, considering that we are closer to the sun in winter than in the summer and don't feel any warmer, you know there are other things at play!
Humidity makes you feel hotter in the summer and colder in the winter. Boo humidity. Although it also makes my hair prettier and I don't have to compulsively moisturize. Hmm.
Ooh, tell me how it went! I have not been running a whole lot because of the snow, which has made it sort of slushy and unpleasant. Yesterday there were enormous puddles I had to slow down for, but today a race that used the same path I ran on yesterday was canceled because in the morning, when the race was to be held, it hadn't gotten warm enough to melt the solid sheets of ice that froze in the overnight very-cold-temperatures.
However, I'm committed to running a local half marathon in June because a friend of mine is race director and I made her a website for it in exchange for a free entry. :-)
It went very well, it was reasonably cold this morning (my fingers remained cold all of the way round) but sunny and clear. I did two big loops in different directions so I could call at the house to collect more food and drink at half-time, and it took me 3 hours and 15 minutes. I was tired, but not desperately so. I imagine that on race day, when I know I don't have to run again for over a week, I won't have to hold back as much.
I was actually going a bit too fast in places, but I'm far enough away from the race not to have to worry about it. I kept on getting sidetracked by this problem I am trying to solve at work, and the more I concentrated on that, the faster I ran, lol. I've only got one long run left now before the real thing though, time is flying!
The Half marathon in June sounds nice. I'm going to do one of those towards the end of May. It's in a place called Chester, not too far from where I live. It's meant to be a nice course, we'll see.
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Date: 2008-02-16 12:38 am (UTC)We didn't get much over here.
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Date: 2008-02-23 02:55 am (UTC)I like to show off my physique.
And that's all I remember from that damn song.
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Date: 2008-02-16 12:59 am (UTC)I did that when I lived there.
We used to scrape snow off of the tennis courts down in GJ, roll them dry and play in a crapload of fleece.
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Date: 2008-02-16 10:13 am (UTC)(It's been really sunny here, and still quite cold - but my office is madly overheated and the sun shines in all afternoon, so I spend most of the day in pseudo-August, and then come out to sort-of-March *g*. It confuses my body!)
(PS: I didn't friend you before, because I thought you were crossposting everything, but then I realised you weren't! So.)
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Date: 2008-02-17 01:06 am (UTC)And I don't really crosspost, unless I have some really cool photos I want to make sure everyone sees! Actually, I'm struggling with the whole identity question right now. Where do I post about food? Where about politics? (Hell, I'm thinking about starting a new politics-only blog.) I am confused and splintery.
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Date: 2008-02-17 01:11 am (UTC)More seriously, it's going to depend on your audience; are your fannish readers interested in your food posts? I know I usually am, with anyone's food-talk. And is this journal your "RL" journal or your "outdoors" journal for most of your readers, because that's going to affect things, too.
POLLS ARE THE ANSWER :)
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Date: 2008-02-17 01:15 am (UTC)It's a dilemma! It's a conundrum! It's a mystery to me!
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Date: 2008-02-22 11:48 pm (UTC)Eric Wampler
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Date: 2008-02-23 02:57 am (UTC)Humidity makes you feel hotter in the summer and colder in the winter. Boo humidity. Although it also makes my hair prettier and I don't have to compulsively moisturize. Hmm.
(Right now it is snowing. So humidity ~ 100%. :-)
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Date: 2008-02-17 01:00 am (UTC)However, I'm committed to running a local half marathon in June because a friend of mine is race director and I made her a website for it in exchange for a free entry. :-)
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Date: 2008-02-17 07:39 pm (UTC)I was actually going a bit too fast in places, but I'm far enough away from the race not to have to worry about it. I kept on getting sidetracked by this problem I am trying to solve at work, and the more I concentrated on that, the faster I ran, lol. I've only got one long run left now before the real thing though, time is flying!
The Half marathon in June sounds nice. I'm going to do one of those towards the end of May. It's in a place called Chester, not too far from where I live. It's meant to be a nice course, we'll see.
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Date: 2008-02-18 03:21 pm (UTC)I did this same course as my very first long race (2004?) and came in 2:01:30 or so. This year I am aiming for under 2 hours.