And finally! I make contact.
Vpn situation is finally rectified and it was frustrating and it did make me want to kill almost everyone in the vicinity but thank god it didn't come to that, though it might have and I almost hoped it would, but in each life some rain must fall and it's been raining here considerably.
Every once in awhile the rains let up though, and sun shines through and makes everything incredibly humid and life cloyingly sweltering.
Ordinarily the weather indoors is a pleasant <30° and one needs only turn the fan on its lowest setting to comfortably ease into a cordial afternoon delight, but if you've had the misfortune of stepping outside or god forbid work out then there are a number of interesting things that your body ends up doing.
As you are aware, for I might have mentioned on a number of occasions how my body's tolerance towards humidity is almost negative and that I have many a times, sometimes in exotic locations even fallen pretty sick owing to high humidity, thus rendering my outdoor adventures to a minimum during muggy days, specifically afternoons; that however doesn't mean that I just don't step outside, of course I do, and I did today, for the needs to buy cat food for my feline devil were pressing and thusly I sauntered to the nearest pet store which is not more than a few hundred metres away.
Yes it was oppressive though not exactly hot, and many a people seizing this glorious warmth in an otherwise rainy weather ventured to go fishing, as was evident by a number of recreational fisherman gathered in groups near the river which runs right opposite my house.
Well, good for them, if they can keep up their nerves in this sticky weather, because I had only climbed down some stairs and I was greeted by what felt like a sauna.
By the time I had finished my cat food run, I was back home, sweating into a puddle inside my clothes, and anybody looking at me would've ventured a guess that I'd just finished a half marathon.
But what am I if not resolved, no matter how foolishly. Changing quickly into workout clothes and poising a couple fans to blow hurricane in my direction I set off to get done with my routine for today, which was a full 45 minutes of HIIT.
Oh silly, silly me.
I was barely one jump squat in when I knew this to be huge mistake, and that I should commence cool down pronto, but then again I was resolved wasn't I?
By the time I was on the 8th rep of my 3 set 15 reps burpee I realized that perhaps I might needs open a ticket window and charge people to see the niagara falls that was my being. If it was raining outside then it was pouring from every sweat gland that wasn't even aware of its existence till last night.
My exercise mat was sodden with sweat, my body writhed with growing fatigue and it was becoming increasingly difficult to breathe.
This I knew was not a good sign of things to come, and that if I kept at it, then surely I would faint. Fans set on full were a but a mockery, for they did nothing to ward off the steam emanating from my body and 35 minutes later when I couldn't even bring myself to do a second set of 45 seconds lunge pulse, which on normal occasions I do holding weights, I knew this workout was at an end.
My clothes stuck to me like a clingy lover, and I couldn't as much as draw a lungful of breath in.
This was a feeling most familiar and as I slowly cooled down waiting for my heart beat to normalize I felt how incandescently hot and red my face had become and that most of it wasn't exercise related.
Never in this humidity ever again will I do this to myself. NEVER! if I workout again, which I will tomorrow, Imma turn on the air conditioner.
This is most singular though, I mean I can exercise under a blazing sun if the weather is dry and I have so many times, but factor in seasonal sultriness and my batteries die.
And the strange thing is, that now sitting near a fan you'd feel almost pleasantly cool, wishing to wear something light on bare arms and legs, but we know better, don't we.
(this has been a long post..oh well)
