It was hot again today, so I decided to go for a run after my wife got home from work, in the cooler evening twilight around sunset. It was a good plan to avoid the heat, but I realised the problem that I had last time I tried running in evenings: mosquitoes.
I have a love-hate relationship with mosquitoes. I hate them, but they love me. When I’m in a mixed group of people, I’m the one they single out to bite. And my skin reacts badly to them. After I got home from my 2.5k run this evening, I had three bites, on my calf, near the ankle, and one on the back of my left hand. They swell up and spread out into large welts, and they itch like crazy. The one on my calf measures about 8cm across. The itching dies down after a few hours, but the welts stay for a few days.
I’d rather run in the heat of the day than deal with mosquitoes.
New content today:
You work for a university now. Can you get access to their gymnasium and run indoors sometimes?
Hmm. I just looked it up, and gym membership at UTS isn’t free for staff, so I’d have to pay. And I’m not particularly keen on treadmills or whatever.
Thinking though… I have life membership of the Sydney University Sports Union, which gives me access to their facilities.
Stony Brook University here on Long Island has an actual indoor track, I believe 400m, which is what I was thinking of.
Oh, right. I don’t know of any such indoor tracks at all in Australia.