{"id":1918,"date":"2014-12-04T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2014-12-04T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T06:00:17","slug":"cold-and-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/cold-and-wet\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold and wet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something about building character or having *the* experience turn into *experience* or digging deep or suffering or applying a little pain or stressing the system in an antifragile sort of way. Maybe all of the above.<\/p>\n

Pouring rain, about 37 degrees at the office. Shorts in my running kit. Iffy conditions. Iffy. Not “full conditions<\/a>” in the Ben Nevis sense, \u00a0but close enough for Portland. A few degrees colder near Council Crest and maybe I’d have seen some snow or freezing rain. It was touching 33\/34 degrees up top.<\/p>\n

So glad I wore a beanie under my brimmed hat to cover my ears… and I could have used warmer (+ waterproof) gloves. Making a fist and squeezing all the water out of the gloves does the trick and forces some blood back into my hands. I had trouble buttoning my shirt when I got back the office. Kind of numb all over.<\/p>\n

The ghost whisperer shell mostly kept the heat in, but I was so soaked from the inside and outside on the way back. \u00a0I dreaded stopping at any crosswalks back through PSU – need to keep generating heat. \u00a0But I had the Marquam Trail all to myself, I saw not a soul.<\/p>\n

I was a little tweaked when I got back to the office and put all the clothes I had including a buff as hat plus hoody; I drank\u00a0mug after mug of Green Chai to try to warm up standing at my desk.<\/p>\n

Good stuff today. Getting after it:
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And my VO2 Max spiked to 66 – which is approaching mutant zone. Huzzah.<\/p>\n

Also\u00a0changed up my runmix to include such chart topping hits as:<\/p>\n