I lied to my mom about something tonight

[LostinVA]

It's 105, and I still went trail running tonight... I hate the treadmill. I know how to run in heat like this, was running in a thickly wooded area, and was tres careful.

However, when my mom the nurse asked me a little while ago on the phone, "You didn't go running OUTSIDE, did you?!" I was all like, "Uh no... I'm not THAT crazy. I went to the gym."

I'm 41 and lied to my mom because I didn't want to get yelled at.

Pathetic!!!!!

[RumpusCat]

1. lol, my coworkers fussed at me about the same thing

I ran anyway. Carefully and with lots of water, of course! :D

[LostinVA]

2. I was hydrated, electrolyted, wooded, slower than usual, AND

had ice in a bandanna around my neck (which melted after about a mile). The humidity was relatively low, so I was okay.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. I'm going to tell her. It's a moral issue.

:bounce:

[LostinVA]

4. OMG!!! She really will yell at me!!!

She was all like, "Are you telling me the truth???" I know she knows...

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Yup. A Mom always knows.

Is the humidity a bit better up there? Heat index here was 106. Brutal. I don't think the A/C shut off all day.

[LostinVA]

6. It was about the same temp, but the humidity was about 55%

I can handle the heat way better than the humidity -- I grew up where it wasn't humid.

I came home and laid down on the kitchen tile... it felt so gooood. The cats ran all over me.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. The humidity is brutal.

This morning, when I went upstairs to my office, the windows had condensation on them. It is just so humid here. I went to play Bunko at a friend's last night and came home and got sick because she had the A/C set at 78 with a house full of women and her new addition doesn't have A/C. I hate that. I hate being hot. I always feel like one can get warm, but can't cool off sometimes.

[LostinVA]

9. Ugh... it was like that here yesterday

I know -- you can always bundle up. I love running in the winter because of that reason.

I hate the humidity even more than the heat -- it's hard for me to breathe.

[Patiod]

10. Just what everyone needs on a day like today

Furry beasts running over you. SO was complaining about the same thing - furry cat squatting on his chest

[LostinVA]

12. Their fur was sticking to my sweat... ick

[sendero]

7. Perk up your ears..

... and you'll hear me yelling too! Heat stroke is no joke! Stopit!

[MichiganVote]

11. Do what you feel but you should know..you can take all those precautions

and still end up keeling over. It happens to the best of conditioned athletes.

[LostinVA]

14. I'm probably safe, since I'm not the best of conditioned athletes

GIGGLE

Trust me, I was literally running 3.5 mph, and sprinkling lots of walking in there.

[MichiganVote]

17. Today my 19 year old son, very healthy, a runner, bent down in a shop

to hand me a rug in an air conditioned store and nearly passed out. Came out of nowhere. He had eaten and had beverages to drink in the morning. I think it happened b/c he has a job where he works outside and had done that the previous two evenings. Meaning, his body just had not recuperated sufficiently from the stress he had encountered with 106+ heat index.

Easy does it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Please be careful...

DU just wouldn't be the same without you!

[LostinVA]

16. *blush*

[LostinVA]

15. My SO is away at an interview and just called

When I told her I went running she said, and I quote, "Jeebus. Next you'll be putting a sauna in the house so you can train for Badwater. You didn't tell your mother, did you???"

See??? Even she knows I shouldn't tell my mom!!!

[RedCappedBandit]

18. Today was my second day of running!

Bad time to start, during the middle of a heatwave :hi:

[RumpusCat]

19. look at it this way...

If you start out in this heat you'll have no problem at all running in the fall! :D

[LostinVA]

21. Exactly! And, you'll be lovin' how you suddenly can run

almost twice as far with all this energy...

Good heat conditioning for Western States, too!

[JVS]

20. DON'T YOU EVER GO RUNNING IN THIS KIND OF WEATHER AGAIN!!!

Don't make me have Skittles kick your ass! :scold:

[ThomCat]

22. You're going to have us all sitting here worrying about you.

Out in this heat, collaped on a trail somewhere. You'll be half baked before anyone finds you.

How could you do this to us? :cry:

(kidding. I hope you at least run with a partner.)

[xchrom]

23. i just got off the phone with your mom.

trouble doesn't BEGIN to describe...

[MissMillie]

24. Well, I think you should be locked up

but that has nothing to do w/ you lying to your mother.

YOU WENT RUNNING OUTSIDE in 105???????????????

You need a straightjacket!