The Weather Thread

[mightyrooster]

Well we’re supposed to be getting some much needed rain later today. It’s already quite humid and sticky.

[mightyrooster]

Yay, the rain has finally come. I love that smell of fresh rain when it hits the dry earth and garden.

[mightyrooster]

It’s starting to get cold here at night already the past few days. Good for getting a good night’s sleep I guess.

[ism22]

As the world's best runner* I'm rarely phased by the conditions. However I thought I'd share the following experiences with my fans:

- Saturday last week I did a 15km tune-up (25km run with 15km at full pace and the remaining 10km at a chilled warm-up / cool-down pace). We were hosting a barbie in the arvo so I was like 'meh... just do it from 2pm... whatevz'. OMGGGGG! The temperature was 34'C and humid as!!! I STRUGGLED to maintain something close to my race pace for 15km and was gooooone afterwards.

- Sunday's 30km. was beeeeautiful. Champaign running weather.

- Monday off.

- Tuesday... split recoveries. My 10km lunch recovery was in 35'C heat with dry winds. Then at night the 6km recovery was the opposite (lovely cool winds). A net neutral IMO.

- Wednesday I did an 18km run (with 5x 1200m intervals at 5km race pace) at 4am (this enabled me to watch the balloons with my son, work a compressed office day and teach at the pool until 7:30pm). Beeeeautiful weather!!! Perfect conditions. Also NFI why but I'm okay running through dark parkland in the early hours of the morning but not late at night. Go figure!

- Thursday night I ran 23km at 11:00pm and it BUCKETED down!!! Absolutely BUCKETED!!! Also I dunno why but something scratched the back of my heel and my socks/shoes were DRENCHED in blood (I didn't even notice but my wife saw them the next day and was like 'OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!?!?')

- Yesterday was 13km with 8 x 100m sprints in the middle. Aside from breaking the 100m world record on one of them there was nothing spectacular.

- This morning in the pool (I teach B2B swimming classes from 9am to 1pm) it was soooooo cold!!! Not much else to say there unless you wanna hear about the deflated size if my cojones after 4 hours standing around in a cold pool.

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In short - this week was either blazing hot (dry heat), crazy wet, humid, freezing or peeeerfect. You decide!

[mightyrooster]

As the world's best runner* I'm rarely phased by the conditions. However I thought I'd share the following experiences with my fans:

- Saturday last week I did a 15km tune-up (25km run with 15km at full pace and the remaining 10km at a chilled warm-up / cool-down pace). We were hosting a barbie in the arvo so I was like 'meh... just do it from 2pm... whatevz'. OMGGGGG! The temperature was 34'C and humid as!!! I STRUGGLED to maintain something close to my race pace for 15km and was gooooone afterwards.

- Sunday's 30km. was beeeeautiful. Champaign running weather.

- Monday off.

- Tuesday... split recoveries. My 10km lunch recovery was in 35'C heat with dry winds. Then at night the 6km recovery was the opposite (lovely cool winds). A net neutral IMO.

- Wednesday I did an 18km run (with 5x 1200m intervals at 5km race pace) at 4am (this enabled me to watch the balloons with my son, work a compressed office day and teach at the pool until 7:30pm). Beeeeautiful weather!!! Perfect conditions. Also NFI why but I'm okay running through dark parkland in the early hours of the morning but not late at night. Go figure!

- Thursday night I ran 23km at 11:00pm and it BUCKETED down!!! Absolutely BUCKETED!!! Also I dunno why but something scratched the back of my heel and my socks/shoes were DRENCHED in blood (I didn't even notice but my wife saw them the next day and was like 'OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!?!?')

- Yesterday was 13km with 8 x 100m sprints in the middle. Aside from breaking the 100m world record on one of them there was nothing spectacular.

- This morning in the pool (I teach B2B swimming classes from 9am to 1pm) it was soooooo cold!!! Not much else to say there unless you wanna hear about the deflated size if my cojones after 4 hours standing around in a cold pool.

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In short - this week was either blazing hot (dry heat), crazy wet, humid, freezing or peeeerfect. You decide!

Lol the weather has been a bit like that lately.

[Andrew Walker]

As the world's best runner* I'm rarely phased by the conditions. However I thought I'd share the following experiences with my fans:

- Saturday last week I did a 15km tune-up (25km run with 15km at full pace and the remaining 10km at a chilled warm-up / cool-down pace). We were hosting a barbie in the arvo so I was like 'meh... just do it from 2pm... whatevz'. OMGGGGG! The temperature was 34'C and humid as!!! I STRUGGLED to maintain something close to my race pace for 15km and was gooooone afterwards.

- Sunday's 30km. was beeeeautiful. Champaign running weather.

- Monday off.

- Tuesday... split recoveries. My 10km lunch recovery was in 35'C heat with dry winds. Then at night the 6km recovery was the opposite (lovely cool winds). A net neutral IMO.

- Wednesday I did an 18km run (with 5x 1200m intervals at 5km race pace) at 4am (this enabled me to watch the balloons with my son, work a compressed office day and teach at the pool until 7:30pm). Beeeeautiful weather!!! Perfect conditions. Also NFI why but I'm okay running through dark parkland in the early hours of the morning but not late at night. Go figure!

- Thursday night I ran 23km at 11:00pm and it BUCKETED down!!! Absolutely BUCKETED!!! Also I dunno why but something scratched the back of my heel and my socks/shoes were DRENCHED in blood (I didn't even notice but my wife saw them the next day and was like 'OMG WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!?!?')

- Yesterday was 13km with 8 x 100m sprints in the middle. Aside from breaking the 100m world record on one of them there was nothing spectacular.

- This morning in the pool (I teach B2B swimming classes from 9am to 1pm) it was soooooo cold!!! Not much else to say there unless you wanna hear about the deflated size if my cojones after 4 hours standing around in a cold pool.

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In short - this week was either blazing hot (dry heat), crazy wet, humid, freezing or peeeerfect. You decide!

A polite reminder this is The Weather Thread We do not need to hear about your marathon training here. In future could you not soil this thread and out that rubbish in the thread you have dedicated to yourself

[Andrew Walker]

First taste here of Autumn even winter yesterday afternoon and even today or a little less so than yesterday

[mightyrooster]

Cold last night and it’s supposed to be even colder tonight with a minimum temperature of 5 degrees.

[horrie hastings]

Was good to turn the air conditioner off this morning and get some of the windows opened hrre. Was cool but pleasant most of the day but about 10 mins ago you could fedl the temperatures drop and had a really heavy downpour of rain. It has stopped again now.

[Andrew Walker]

Was good to turn the air conditioner off this morning and get some of the windows opened hrre. Was cool but pleasant most of the day but about 10 mins ago you could fedl the temperatures drop and had a really heavy downpour of rain. It has stopped again now.

I got caught in that rain as I left the pub ( wasn’t drinking but was in the tab section )

[rented tracksuit]

Cold last night and it’s supposed to be even colder tonight with a minimum temperature of 5 degrees.

Definite changing of the seasons now. You can feel that winter wind in the mornings. It’s brisk. I love it!

Off this weekend to stock up the firewood for the season. I’m going to be pretty sore and sorry by Sunday night.

[mightyrooster]

Definite changing of the seasons now. You can feel that winter wind in the mornings. It’s brisk. I love it!

Off this weekend to stock up the firewood for the season. I’m going to be pretty sore and sorry by Sunday night.

It's definitely been cold the last few night. I need to get our heater fixed as the control board was completely fried by a lizard over summer.

[Andrew Walker]

It's definitely been cold the last few night. I need to get our heater fixed as the control board was completely fried by a lizard over summer.

OH MR !! May I be so bold as to suggest you splurge on a new heater for winter

[mightyrooster]

OH MR !! May I be so bold as to suggest you splurge on a new heater for winter

Will have to wait. I booked a service guy who’s going to put in a recycled second hand circuit board so will be cheaper. It comes with a 12 month warranty so should last another winter. I plan to upgrade the ceiling insulation this year and then maybe look to get a new reverse cycle cooling / heating system at the end of the year. I can’t believe a tiny little lizard could cause so much damage. To buy a brand new circuit board would have cost about $1,500 installed!

By the way, the weather today was fantastic. Early Autumn is my favourite time of year in Canberra.

[ism22]

Will have to wait. I booked a service guy who’s going to put in a recycled second hand circuit board so will be cheaper. It comes with a 12 month warranty so should last another winter. I plan to upgrade the ceiling insulation this year and then maybe look to get a new reverse cycle cooling / heating system at the end of the year. I can’t believe a tiny little lizard could cause so much damage. To buy a brand new circuit board would have cost about $1,500 installed!

By the way, the weather today was fantastic. Early Autumn is my favourite time of year in Canberra.

Damn that's crazy!!! TBH based on my repairs of retro electronics, it's kinda sad that we simply don't circuit level repairs anymore. So much waste when somebody's probably just gotta clean the board up and replace a few 50c components.

Hope you're warm this winter. Also remember you can get those interest free loans on new units. We have a 60's house but insulated it and installed modern aircon units... IMO Canberra winters don't have to be cold.