Today is the longest day of the year.
OK, so technically, at 14 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds of daylight there’s only one second of daylight more than there was yesterday and three more than there will be tomorrow. And we won’t be seeing appreciable changes in the length of day until late August. But spiritually, emotionally, physically, it’s important to know that today you have 14 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds of daylight (or 15 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds if you count civil twilight) to work with. Taking full advantage of that 14 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds, you could, conceivably:
- Take a 217-mile bike ride (basically from Durham to Winston-Salem and back) at a 15 mph pace without stopping
- Run 88 miles (three and third marathons) and a 10-minute-per-mile pace.
- Take a 58-mile hike (nearly 3 laps on Umstead State Park’s 20 miles of hiking trails) at 15-minute-per-mile pace.
- Or do whatever you love that gets your blood pumping in the 3 hours, 34 minutes and 14 seconds you’ll have this afternoon after the whistle blows at 5.
It’s the longest day of the year. Use it all.
It’s 14 hours, 35 minutes and 14 seconds of unbearable heat. Running even one mile in this weather would be torture, and you’re suggesting 88. Are you trying to kill us all, Joe?
I just did a 12-mile mountain bike ride at Crabtree/286, then swam for half an hour and it was great! It’s hot, but not death-by-sweat humid like it was last week. 14:35:14 on a day like this isn’t nearly enough!