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Too hot or too cool
I'm a fair weather kind of person; I'm happier when it is sunny and warm. Lately this has started to change a little bit (not the sunny part, the warm part). Since getting back from vacation, I've gone on 3 training runs where it has been over 70 degrees out. I'm not sure if it is that I haven't trained in a week (I went on 1 out of 4 runs while on vacation), but my performance was pretty poor. Yesterday's run, I had over a 9 minute mile which isn't the norm for me. I think I need to get up at the crack of dawn (when my wife leaves for work) and run then otherwise training is going to be a nightmare as the temperature increases.
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Can there be an ideal car?
There are lots of features I like about what I drive, a Toyota Highlander. However, we rented a Chevy Malibu on our vacation and it has a few features that I think are lacking from my car, but at the same time, lacks many features that I have. I'd like to see a combination of features from both cars as well as some others in my next car. I'm sure that if I bought a real expensive car, I'd get them. For instance, I want:
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Breathing, part 2
The other day, I wrote about taking breathing for granted; the story doesn't end there. My wife decided to book us on a tour of Mauna Kea. I said, "whatever" as I usually do when she wants to book something. It wasn't until the night before that I looked at the tour website and got a little panicked as there are numerous warnings about the high altitude and the inability for rapid emergency response in case something happened. We made it to 9200 ft and I was still breathing without difficulty. Then we climbed to over 13000 ft where I was still able to breath, but felt a little light headed. You really don't think about breathing until it becomes difficult.
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Local tours by local guides
It seems that in many places we visit, tourism is so rampant (if you will) that there aren't enough tour guides that are native to an area. We went on a kayak trip the other day in Kona, Hawaii where the guides were from Long Beach and Colorado, so we didn't get a flavor of native culture. On the flip side, my wife and I just got back from a tour of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park with Warren Costa of Native Guide Hawaii. It was an excellent tour where we learned so much that my head is about to explode! If you're on the Big Island of Hawaii, we definitely recommend a tour with Warren.