Here it comes, a
New York City-style heat wave: 94 degrees Tuesday; 94 Wednesday; 97 Thursday
and 88 Friday.
What to do as a
runner – Get out in the early morning? Or late at night when the temperatures
dip into the low 70s?
Well this runner heads
to a treadmill in my neighborhood gym, where the temperature is always in the 70s.
From here, because the machines face picture windows that look out onto busy
Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, I watch the foot traffic go by. The endless summer of
young ladies in too-short shorts, children during their last days of no-school
freedom on skateboards and scooters, my elders shuffling along in the punishing
heat that is demonstrably too much for them, BFFs on their way to coffee or an
early lunch.
If I’m to be in
the city (and not at the beach!) during this early September heat wave, here’s
what I do to cope (and keep up a semblance of training for that mid-November
marathon in Brooklyn): treadmill-run, dine in AC comfort and if the spirit
moves, put a little Beach Boys on the stereo !
Next: Running for Your Life: If the Greats
Were With Us Thursday
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