@missdixy,
missdixy;25661 wrote:See, you're absolutely craazy
Darkness makes me happy. I always get energetic on days when it's cloudy! I always go for walks, take pictures, contemplate life etc. lol.
The sun and heat, on the other hand, make me feel lethargic. But then again, it's all I've really ever known. So we're sort of at opposite ends of the spectrum here eh?
p.s. My brother is just as crazy as you. he runs in triple-digit heat, right when the day gets hottest. I do not understand it
My students always want the classroom AC up so high it's unbearable for me. I attribute that to the fact they're fascinated with the cold, having lived in South Texas heat all their lives. I frequently tell them that I escaped from places such as Minnesota, Montana, and Colorado to
warmth, and now they're trying to freeze me to death anyway.
As for your brother's running preferences -- he might be like me, in that he wants to sweat a lot while exercising, to get that gritty, 'burn-down' effect, whereby you feel you're waging war with
death, by training like a machine at max performance. The more I sweat, the more wasted I feel afterward, the better. I feel as though I've cheated
The Grim Reaper out of a few more days of decent living. I've told my son I want to literally die running. I want to be taken outside just before my final decline, and allowed to
run myself to death.I want to croak, with my heart, lungs and brain, fighting like hell to keep me alive, in my
Addidas.:headbang:
