I’ve lived in Southern California for about the last 19 years with a short stint in Portland, OR. Before that I lived outside of Boston and a few other places, so I’ve had the opportunity to experience various types of weather including cold, rain and snow. The weather in San Diego has been quite chilly lately with day time highs in the upper 50’s. The other morning, my neighbors had frost on their lawns (since I no longer have a front lawn and my back lawn is synthetic, I didn’t have frost). To me, that is beyond cold.
I can’t remember when in my life that I’ve been so consistently cold! I’ve heard people say that your blood thins (which obviously isn’t the case), but the consistently moderate weather here in San Diego has spoiled me to the point that anything below 65 is getting cold. I’m still trying to run, but if the temperature outside is below about 60, it takes me about half my run to warm up and that just isn’t fun. 65-70 is my ideal temperature for running; any colder and I feel like I’m going to get frost bite!
By now, people are probably laughing at me as they’re digging out from another snowstorm or scraping ice off of the windshield in order to get to work. A few weeks ago I was in Portland, OR for work and I was wearing a long sleeved shirt, a sweatshirt, a jacket, and then a light rain coat on top of that. My co-workers were just about laughing at me. I decided to suck it up and stop complaining; when one of my co-workers suggested eating lunch outside, I kept my mouth shut and went with the flow. OK, it was quite cold out, but with the sun shining, it wasn’t that bad. I’m sure I could get used to the cold again, but why should I?
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