I've never looked this happy on a treadmill!
A bit of back story on an El Niño Event: An El Niño Event is defined as a difference in the surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean as it compares to the average, lasting over five months. Generally considered the warming of the surface temperature.
What then, you ask is a La Niña? That’s generally the cooling.
It’s also a little Spanish boy, and I’m certain somewhere, the name of a delicious soup and sandwich combo. Everything is a sandwich somewhere, and like most sandwiches are just waiting for me to eat. But sandwiches are worthy of their own post, so they will have to wait, this is talkin’ bout the weather. The stuff small talk is made of…
No matter how delicious the sandwich sounds I personally don’t much care what causes an El Niño. I’m sure global warming (yes, I know it’s technically called Climate Change) can be blamed, but you can blame that for a lot of stuff. I even have an Official Presidential Order blaming it for my back injury and recent bought of tendinitis (to be honest El Presidente Fernando Armindo Lugo Mendez or Paraguay – but still a President – only cost me $20) and it was more than justified. But honestly I don’t care what caused it, I just hope it continues through our winter season. To be honest no one at this point really knows what the cause is, or is saying, whether it’s global warming, HARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), or just the Chinese developing weather weaponry to destabilize Western interests -If you think I’m crazy CLICK HERE – It just signals, on average in Chicago, not only less precipitation (read: less snow) in late fall and winter, but warmer temperatures. This El Niño is great news for those of us who either can’t stand treadmills or love to run outside year-round. I would fall in both those categories. Either that or it’s bad news for the good old US of A and diplomatic relations with our co-dependent “friends” in the far East.
Needless to say the reports of the building heat in Pacific Ocean surface temperatures this summer had all the weather nerds protractors’ pointed skyward and me hoping the trend would continue for purely selfish reasons, running. We had a great summer for building some serious mileage with the cooler summer temperatures, seriously you all hit the training lottery I would have been in heaven, if I could have run, at times even just to crawl would have been nice, but heaven none the less. That is of course unless you were training for the Ironman World Championships, in which you lacked the oppressive heat and humidity we are accustomed to in August, thereby acclimatizing you to the brutal day you would endure in Kona. But I don’t feel bad for anyone who gets to run Ironman Hawaii, it’s a privileged experience, no complaining allowed.
But I missed all the good weather this summer, and look forward to building my run fitness back to nominal levels. Considering how I ran outside all last winter (one of the snowiest on record) I’m due for some good running weather. I don’t know what the future will bring, the El Niño could have no effect and I’ll just have to deal, but I’m hopeful and hungry and not just for and a good sandwich.
Oh and in case your wondering what HARP is or a complete conspiracy nut CLICK HERE and you can read all about the serious bass they are pumping out at their Ultra-Low Frequency Radio Array messing with our ionosphere. Let’s hope they never hit the a ehem… brown note on that thing! One word: messy.
But Cheers to El Niño, your green card is cleared for entry.
