(another kind of) Seasonal Affective Disorder

[prostheticgod04]

I am finding it increasingly difficult by the day to get outside and run or bike or walk the whole two blocks to the gym. I know SAD is generally linked to wet grey habitat--not season-less Florida--but just the same . . . this heat is making me incredibly lethargic which in turn has me questioning whether or not I'm becoming ever-so-mildly

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[anterastilis]

Ugh, I think I know what you're saying. At least, I can draw a parallel to dealing with weather that is just deadening. It is hard as hell for me to get up and do anything when it is -30 outside in the winter, when the sun rises at 9am and sets at 4pm.

I don't think that we 4-seasoners have the monopoly on SAD.

Is there any sort of escape for you? Here, I can escape to the arboretum or a garden store (or, in a pinch, the ceiling lamp department at Menards) in the winter. What can you do when the heat is just sucking the life out of you?

[prostheticgod04]

answer: stay inside.

I actually went out tonight on an attempted four-miler but crashed at mile 2.5, completely dehydrated, and walked back the rest of the way trying not to vomit or allow my light-headedness to progress too far. I'll spend the next 24 hours gorging myself on water and potassium and go for three miles tomorrow. I haven't worked out the calculus of it yet, but to me, running 10miles at 65' is easier than running 4 at 95'.

[anterastilis]

Can you go running realllllly early in the morning, before the heat of the day sets in?

I would say that, after 75', each five degree increment increases the difficulty of the run two fold. if it's 110 degrees outside, all you have to do is walk to the corner store and you will have put in more of a run than if you'd done a 10 miler at 65'.

Ugh, the maths.

[colleenwebb]

So it's not just me. The weather is particularly oppressive this year.

[prostheticgod04]

Not just you at all.