Don\’t take it to extremes! Extreme training isn\’t for everyone. Certainly it isn\’t for me! However, there are other extremes going on around here.

Namely, the weather. Monday night it dropped to about 26 degrees; and that\’s phenomenally cold for us. Happily, I was able to keep my water pipes in action. Yesterday, it barely got above freezing. It didn\’t help that the sun didn\’t start breaking through the clouds until about 2 pm.

Last night wasn\’t quite as cold; but a brief power outage prompted me to go to bed by 8:15 pm. For me, no electricity means no heat. I also decided that it would be wise to run a trickle of water overnight, just in case.

This morning it was still barely above freezing; and I had a cold walk to work. I had to help my hands with warming packs. Then, during the day, the temperature rose to about 54 degrees. What a change!

It\’s nice to have it feel warmer in here; but severe weather is possible in the Southeast region tonight and into tomorrow morning. We could get heavy rain; and that puts a damper (no pun intended) on my desire to make a pre-work run to the supermarket.

Forty degrees and wind 10-15 mph isn\’t fun, especially when you\’re on a bicycle; and if it\’s raining as well, it\’s a recipe for misery. Besides, there\’s nothing that I absolutely must have right away.

Tomorrow night and the next, it\’s back down to freezing. If I find this cold spell so hard to deal with, I\’d have a terrible time trying to live in the Northern latitudes.