Cooked and Toasty

Today is the beginning of an almost week long heatwave.  I've always dreaded hot Indian summer especially when the cool change doesn't come soon enough for a good night's sleep.  Just like now... another 30 mins to midnight.

Tomorrow is hitting max of 41deg and if you're training for the Sahara desert marathon or the Les Sables, this is perhaps the perfect training temperature sans the fine sand.  And I'm having tea (means dinner) at a friend's at dusk and the heat is still relentless.  It's ultra vital to be properly hydrated throughout the day.  I'm beginning to enjoy fridge-cold drinks now and above all, I drank the same cold drink during winter.  It dawned on me why the kids were drinking cold drinks in winter at a friend's place in New York 4 years ago, it was just refreshing albeit 'room temperature' the body welcomed the quencher.  The body behaves ever so differently when it's cold and dry.  

The one good reason to cheer up is the heat is not going to drag its ar@# to next Friday where my Mountain to Surf run is.  Fingers crossed it's going to be a fantastically cool teen temperature.

Did a fantastic run last Saturday on an annual club course in the bush.  And ran the same course with my BFF who was only too grateful that I introduced her to the most wonderful scenery.  Lucky that the roos, wild rabbits and wallabies were so close to us on our paths.  They probably have seen more human movement here given that they did not flee.  The ones in the Outback are like 100m away and gone in a second.  My iphone didn't do enough justice and speed to capture those special moments.

And we'll definitely run the same 18k course periodically to boost our hill strengths (hopefully).

School starts almost the last day of January if not February.  The kids are on a road trip to Sydney with dad and stopping a night along the way.  Sydney and any big cities do not hold the magic for me anymore.  I'm frankly quite jaded with city views.  I adore the isolated bush and the night quietitude.  Star gazing and looking out for the planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and the common star constellation, the Southern Cross.  I must have been a closet nature person in my entire life.  And the timeliness of being here is the big continent just opens up a new phase in life.

The sleep bug is working on me and it's still today!  15 minutes to boiler day.