Summer holiday: its probably to hot for school. Winter holiday: its probably too snowy to get to school safely. Easter holiday: go pretend to care about religion instead of school. Autumn holiday: go help your family get ready for winter instead of school.
So time off was never part of the equation.
I think it depends on where you live. I have visited places where summer is the best season. I live where summer is the worst season.
As someone who hates the cold, gonna have to disagree on it being a bad season. As much as I hate the bees/wasps/mosquitoes, I hate the Devil’s Dandruff ( snow ) and the ice that follows with it more.
I can handle the higher heat, but struggle a lot more with the cold.
Personally, I’m over-insulated (fat), naturally run hot and sweaty even besides that, and am from a Nordic country so I suffer in anything over 20°C (68F).
Except when cycling outdoors, then I PREFER it hot, easily tolerating over 30C (86F) as long as I have plenty of water, sugar, and electrolytes 😁
I have never in my life supplemented “electrolytes,” and have always been fine, and I run distance.
It’s more marketing bullshit for beverages than anything. You are already getting too much salt I can assure you.
But if you do find yourself getting muscle cramps, it can be from low potassium.
Fun fact: when cycling, I usually do at least 60km, sometimes 100 or above and I tend to already start to sweat profusely 5 minutes into any kind of workout.
Also, since I’m very heavy, I’m slow in spite of putting around 180-220 watts to the pedals throughout, so that’s many hours and many liters of water, salt, and other minerals expelled with nothing coming in except for water, a couple bananas or three, and a few electrolyte tabs in one of the two water bottles I bring and frequently refill.
I guarantee you that, no matter what the “average” person of average weight with average amounts of perspiration doing an average to long duration workout needs, I DO see a significant benefit from the electrolytes compared to when I had nothing but water and bananas for the 4-8 hour rides.
Well 60 km is a very long ways. 60 * 2/3= 120/3=40 miles. At 7 mph, a slow pace for a bicycle, that is almost 6 hours. Even at 15 mph that is still two and a half ish hours.
So maybe you need electrolytes.
Yet I did 10 -20 miles jogging with 2k feet elevation gain like 5 days a week or so for years, year round, and didn’t need anything other than water.
With the elevation gain, it really slows down the jogging, a jog is very slow up hills, slower than a walk on level ground, so I would be out for hours as well, (although I would stop halfway and stretch and do crunches and such.)
Potassium is an electrolyte.
I know, that’s why I mentioned it, along with salt, which is an electrolyte as well.
If you have a decent diet, you don’t need to supplement electrolytes, according to The Guardian, and my experience.
But if you do notice muscle cramps, you want to try to up your potassium to see if that’s the problem, which is what I was trying to say.
Gotcha, but I still have to disagree. As a hot, sweaty person like the OC, getting enough potassium (or even sodium at times) for cycling in hot weather through diet alone would require massive quantities of food. The amount of sweating that can happen when one doesn’t have the physique for long-distance running is nuts!
I don’t mind being hot. I hate being cold.
If you’re cold you can always put on another layer. If you’re hot, you run out of layers to take off
You can always take off more layers
I don’t mind being hot but I hate humidity. It’s 7am and the temperature is 67 with a “feels like” temperature of 77. And there is no breeze. There is never any breeze here. I fucking hate it
My hands feel like they’re being crushed by boulders, and face feels like needle face x1000 in the cold. The peak of summer may be miserable but I can still function without extreme pain. And before anybody mentions better gloves or a face covering, it doesn’t help. I’ve tried every magical glove in existence. And heated ones make me sweat after 5-10 minutes and I’m arguably in a worse position, same with full face coverings. FUCK WINTER.
I hate winter. Switching all my winter wardrobe to wool has made it at least less sweaty under all the layers. Seems like every winter thing is made of some synthetic fiber that acts like wearing a plastic bag when you sweat. Wool is the way.
Wool is the only (that I am aware of,) fabric that will keep you warm after it’s wet. Cotton is the worst, it sticks to your skin when wet.
If you are caught outside, stranded, they say to make sure to take layers off, because if you sweat, you die.
Real talk! I grew up on the equator and moved to somewhere it snows on occasion. All the mfers saying “I can only get so naked” haven’t experienced the cold.
When I was a kid, summer was max 25 degrees. Perfect! Now it gets above 35 degrees regularly. The actual season did not used to be atrocious (for me).
Spring is my favourite season. When you get the first warm day after a depressing winter and the new leaves are growing and the cherry blossoms are in bloom.
We got summer in spring this year. In fact I think we got summer in winter (February) this year too.
We got so much time off in November due to teacher student conferences, teacher days, and other fuckery we usually did go on vacation in fall.
One year we went to Disney and the boat guy asked where we were from and over half the boat said NJ, he asked if we were a group and we all laughed and said no. Cause we weren’t. We just all decided vacation instead of teacher learning days.
This is one of those rare times where I need to decide whether I’m going to downvote just because I disagree.
Central coast of CA, it’s an amazing time. Warm during day but well under 90, cools down at night perfect blend
The fuck’s a “season”?
Vietnam does not use the metric system? Prolly then the only victory the US achieved in the Vietnam war lol
They do, but I’m from America so I use whatever.
Also we have kinda do seasons here, right now it’s “wet”, meaning in the highlands it tends to be drizzly and clouds more often, and you get 1-2 15 minute showers, and in the low lands, it’s sunny all day, and you get absolutely dumped on for 15-30 minutes in the late afternoon and sometimes in the morning.
I have always hated the whole “it’s summer you must come outside and do things with us right now” thing. I don’t get why you don’t spend time outside all year round. Why is it important now that it’s intolerably hot and bright?
no, even the hottest summers are many times better than winters where I live; weather below 10°C is just not suited for sustaining human life and makes me want to go indoors immediately, no comparison to hot weather
I wish it were fall vacation, and normalized for even adults (around the world, not just as a job benefit for some but as a fact of life) to take at least a month off somewhere between late August and the end of October. That’s peak time to go outside and enjoy the changing weather, perfect temperature for a light jacket, enjoy the scenery with all the trees changing colors, etc – the middle of summer’s just too fucking hot, now. You’re either boiling alive in the sun or it’s pissing rain, and no in-between. It’d probably do wonders for the average person’s mental health, and air quality/the environment, too, if everyone just took a month off around the same time each year and it was just a thing you were expected to have.
Buuuuut line must go up and we’ve got pumpkin spice lattes to sell, so.
Big autumn head myself! It’s just so fucking cozy.
I have a big lake here and everyone is just walking around it in circles all day long because Autumn is just so cool.
The falling leaves are my kind of cherry blossoms, very short lived but so beautiful.
I don’t how anybody would prefer any other season. Like whats is wrong with you?!
Everyones talking about how great flowers in spring smell, but have you smelled autumn?!
Im just a bit sad it took me 24 years to realize, if not I would have cherished them alot more.
It is no use though to dwell in past though, looking forward to lots of really cozy autumns!!My dad has worked in the same white collar job since he graduated highschool and he doesn’t get paid anything super great or have a pension or anything, but he has like 5 weeks of vacation a year. Ever since I was a little kid he’s always taken 2 weeks off every fall and just spent it puttering around in the yard, going for walks, and enjoying the weather.
I like it because it’s sunny and warm
I hated summer as a kid. I liked school better. Home life sucked. If I wasnt getting screamed at inside, I was getting screamed at out doing farm work. so much goddamn farm work in the summers.
Fall was my favorite growing up, back to school meant no more farm work.
Now I love summers. I like fall still, but winter makes me sad, so end of summer sucks. Closing down my garden is my least favorite time of the year.
