Debauched
It was really nice to not workout on a Saturday. I stayed up late Friday watching shows normally tivo'd. Didn't really sleep in much but didn't get up at 0515 like I would have needed for the club ride. Which turned out in my favor since they all pretty much kept pushing the distance till the line broke at 67 miles. Some still went out for 90. Ah- No.
The community Broadway Saturday was actually really fun. Mo loved the songs and I loved that they served beer and had a buffet and sat next to Big John. Afterwards I sat in my jacuzzi reading magazines and drinking beer while a mostly dry monsoon came through with thunder/ lightening/huge wind and massive dust.
Sunday was a very nice 1.5 mile open water swim and then 20 minute desert hill run. Afterwards we all went to Mexican food and drank and ate too much in the sun.
Had our first official 101 degree day Saturday. Bring it on!
The community Broadway Saturday was actually really fun. Mo loved the songs and I loved that they served beer and had a buffet and sat next to Big John. Afterwards I sat in my jacuzzi reading magazines and drinking beer while a mostly dry monsoon came through with thunder/ lightening/huge wind and massive dust.
Sunday was a very nice 1.5 mile open water swim and then 20 minute desert hill run. Afterwards we all went to Mexican food and drank and ate too much in the sun.
Had our first official 101 degree day Saturday. Bring it on!
posted by Comm's @ 8:38 AM
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10 Comments:
Dry Monsoon? Isn't that an oxymoron?
The monsoon season is typically quite wet. However when the moisture is not there but the winds are, there is a tremendous wall of dust that pushes ahead of storms at more than 40 mph.
These are called haboobs and can be as high as three miles and as long and wide as 20 miles. These are typical to the electrical storms of the midwest except for the dust that precedes it.
The heat sucks up the rain and you still get the thunder and lightening and some very dirty rain, its almost like falling mud.
My uncle was in from Illinois over the weekend and was laughing over the excitement and anticipation of what looked to be the first storm of the season. Now he's addicted to the word 'haboob', but then again, who wouldn't be?
You can have our heat, too - thanks. I loath the heat while I'm training. Out by the pool it is fine, though.
blech. I don't care if it is a day heat.
sounds like a really good way to spend the weekend!!
Sounds like a great weekend! As for your temperature, that is the reason that I will never got to visit my parents in Henderson, NV again unless there is some large motivating reason to go and see them during the summer.
Murtha...
that's what I really love about florida - it rarely gets above about 93 - that temp brings on the rain, cooling it down nicely. Sure, it's not a dry heat, but it's not 100 either...
We got rain on Saturday! A real soaker! I have never heard the "dry rain" called "haboobs"- love it!
I know the mexican term for them are "virgas" or something like that...but I like "HABOOBS" much better! (or was that a typo??) :-)
Virga is rain that falls but does not hit the ground.
Haboobs are the dust clouds that proceed monsoons.
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