Not much exciting happening of late. Still doing plenty of running and biking and have an 80k ride planned for Friday and a long walk on Saturday so that should test the aging muscles.
Getting on the bike on these chilly mornings takes some effort but we soon warm up. Got caught in a downpour last week so cut it short but the bonus on Monday was a 17k downhill with a 30kph tailwind up our bums. Very enjoyable.
Decided to run along the Rail Trail yesterday morning so I dropped by and picked up MM’s two dogs who enjoy such outings. Sent a text to tell her we were off and got a reply later when she was out of the shower to say she’d just got back from a run with the dogs. No wonder they were lagging behind when I finished! I thought Dogbait could be loved by at least a couple of dogs on this planet but not so sure now.
A meteorologist was on TV on Tuesday telling us we were now in an La Niña event where the water surface temperature was warmer hence we could expect “above average rainfall for winter and probably for the rest of the year”.
So what happened yesterday? It rained all day of course.
Cold, wet and miserable now but you won’t find anyone here complaining.
Just a slight correction to your Spanish. “El” is masculine and “La” is feminine. “Niño” means baby boy and “Niña” means baby girl. So it should be “El Niño” and “La Niña”.
Literally, both mean “the baby” and indicate the gender as well.
El Niña would be kind of a hermaphrodite (at least grammatically).
Jazus! Trust me to mix it with an educated linguist! A cunning one at that! I stand corrected and appropriate adjustments made.
I wasn’t really trying to be anonymous, DB. I am just playing with the Google Chrome browser and forgot that it hadn’t been set to autofill the data for comments.
Chrome doesn’t look bad but I have so many Firefox Extensions I couldn’t live without and Chrome can’t match them.
Your run would have been quite a bit warmer if you had to carry the totally exhausted Bugalugs and Sashi home on your back :0) !
I’d leave them to catch the train.
The doggies are getting some good exercise this week! Didn’t you recognise the look of confusion on their faces when you invited them to hop in your car?
I’m not sure I got good exercise though as it was absolutely freezing running with them.
I guess it is all a matter of perspective. Looking at your current temperature and humidity off to the side – it is almost exactly the same as ours this morning. We are in shorts and think that this is great!
I used to work in shorts all winter much to the horror of other meter readers. There was a girl in swimming without a wet suit this morning as I ran along the beach. I’d only get in there at the moment with one of your dry suits on.