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Climate Change is Great For People Who Like to Exercise All Year Round
I mean, not me, but people. Crazy people.
On my way in to the office this morning, dressed in jeans, T-shirt, sweatshirt, and winter coat, I passed somebody on a bicycle. Like, willingly.
He wasn’t some poor soul without a working automobile who had someplace to be or even some granola cruncher trying to lessen his carbon footprint.
He was in full Lance Armstrong mode. Stretchy pants, helmet, the tiny mirrors the size of postage stamps. The whole nine yards.
It’s 32 degrees outside.
But I understand the allure of getting out and sucking in some fresh-ish air. It’s January in northeast Ohio and there’s still no snow. Lake Erie hasn’t even thought about freezing over. I’m surprised people aren’t swimming in it — who knows, they probably are.
Because people who like to exercise outside are insane.
I’ve learned my limits the hard way. I like to bike, but my personal cut off is 60 degrees. Anything lower and my delicate bits — like my fingers and my ears and my entire face — experience pain, which I do not enjoy.
I know that if I can…
