Monday 10 Miler
I met Brian and Steve Monday evening at 7:15 for our 10 mile race preparation run. We were targeting a 6:40 pace which I figured would be beyond conversational pace for me, but not too terribly challanging, given that I've done it in sub 6:30 recently. Too bad the elements didn't cooperate.
We managed to hold 6:42 through 7 miles but that was about as far as we could maintain it before we took an "every man for himself" approach. Brian and I hung together until near the end and Steve charted his own course. We all did 10 miles, and all of us managed to hold on to sub 7 pace overall, but just barely. It was damned hot and humid. I pray it's not like that Sunday morning. I know it's going to cool down but by Sunday it appears to be getting back to above normal. It's amazing to me that people can deny global warming when even a cold front doesn't take us down to normal (i.e. average) temperatures. The afternoon high has been above average for 26 days straight, and since September 1st I've seen 3 mornings where the low temperature was below average. Summer is long enough in Houston without it stretching into October. 93 yesterday. Tied the record.
We managed to hold 6:42 through 7 miles but that was about as far as we could maintain it before we took an "every man for himself" approach. Brian and I hung together until near the end and Steve charted his own course. We all did 10 miles, and all of us managed to hold on to sub 7 pace overall, but just barely. It was damned hot and humid. I pray it's not like that Sunday morning. I know it's going to cool down but by Sunday it appears to be getting back to above normal. It's amazing to me that people can deny global warming when even a cold front doesn't take us down to normal (i.e. average) temperatures. The afternoon high has been above average for 26 days straight, and since September 1st I've seen 3 mornings where the low temperature was below average. Summer is long enough in Houston without it stretching into October. 93 yesterday. Tied the record.
posted by Lance Collins at 12:58 PM
4 Comments:
Great run and done.
Fun facts:In Houston, Nov. 1934-high of 90,Oct. 1938-high of 97, July 1939-high of 105, March 1946-high of 96. You may be on to something.
SteveS
Anecdotes are nice but it's long-term trends that are significant. Here's another one for you that deals with averages, not anecdotes.
On October 1, 2002, the Houston Chronicle reported that the average morning low for the previous date, September 30, was 61 degrees. Just 4 years later, by 2006, the average morning low for September 30 had climbed to 64. So in just 4 years, the average rose by 3 degrees. That's crunching more than 100 years of data. And incidentally, the record high for September 30, is 95 degrees, set not back in the 1930s but in 1998, one of the hottest years on record.
And the average morning low for October 30 in 2002 was 51. Let's see what it has climbed to this year. Probably 54.
A global temperature increase of 3 degrees would be an extinction level event for many species, and catastrophic to mankind.
Farting cows are too blame. Fix that and volcanos and then we are good to go.
SteveS
Given the age of the earth is over 4 billion years old, I really don't think 100 years of data is a good sample.
I tend to believe that the earth has undergone several global warming and global cooling periods.
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