Mad Dogs and Englishmen…
I’m sitting here drenched with sweat, but I wanted to write this while my latest lapse of good judgment is fresh in my cruller.
For reasons I will spare you, yesterday I did not have a chance to do the morning “walk”. Those of you who do that kind of thing regularly know that missing a day makes the following day’s walk more pressing. Unfortunately I awoke later than I had expected and after noodling around the house on the computer for a while and otherwise wasting time, it was 11 o’clock by the time I was ready to head out.
When I opened the front door of the air-conditioned house, it was like being inside a blast furnace. The sun was blazing, the air was heavy, still and chock full of humidity. Instead of immediately going back inside, I thought, “Don’t be a wimp, Jimbo. How bad can it be?”
It was very bad.
At about the 2/3 mark of a three and a half mile walk, the digital thermometer on the bank in the center of town was alternating between 91 and 92 degrees. Traffic was reasonably heavy at that time in the center of town, and the exhaust fumes from the cars and trucks stubbornly hung in the air.
I had drained my water bottle, and I had to choose between waiting in the sun to cross the busy street to buy a bottle of cold water or continue on just to get out of the heat. I chose the latter.
The last mile was most uncomfortable. Normally I use walking time to think about things to write, but today all I did was count steps until my private version of the Bataan Death March was over.
So, what kind of knucklehead goes out in the midday sun? That would be “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” … and Jimbo.
It’s right around 60 here today.
Just so’s you know.
Comment by Craig — August 13, 2005 @ 1:56 pm
oiy Jim, that’s HOT. What about investing in a treadmill?
Comment by Moogie — August 13, 2005 @ 2:40 pm
Take care when walking in the heat and humidity,,,you know how much more ‘the older generation’ is to heat stroke, don’t ya???? *L* Sounds like our weather here in Ohio, ceptin I don’t go out walking in it, get enough of that at work!
Comment by Michele — August 13, 2005 @ 4:47 pm
91 0r 92 degrees? I wish it would cool off at night to at least that here. At times I have been at work at midnight and the temp was still 110 degrees.
Comment by Azygos — August 13, 2005 @ 8:27 pm
No worries…next weekend we’ll make sure you’re properly hydrated.
Comment by zonker — August 13, 2005 @ 10:09 pm
Even you-know-who in the brown fur coat hardly goes out in this heat unless we say “dairy queen.” Criminy. Bleached bones city.
Comment by dogette — August 14, 2005 @ 12:42 am
UGH.. it is UNBEARABLE in North Jersey. I couldn’t even think about walking in this heat!
Comment by debby — August 14, 2005 @ 9:19 am
.. good thing you have all that great farookin hair to cover that noggin of yours… we wouldnae’ want to hear of you frying that brain of yours with anything other than good booze..
Comment by Eric — August 14, 2005 @ 5:29 pm
The only exercise I get in this heat is 12 oz. brown bottle curls.
Comment by Thomas — August 14, 2005 @ 5:33 pm