Runner Complaining About Winter Weather Can’t Wait to Start Complaining About Summer Weather
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A local runner has “had about enough” of brutally cold, icy winter weather, Dumb Runner has learned, and is eager for the brutally hot, humid weather of summer.
“My God, this sucks,” said Robert Southey, 33, during a long run Sunday morning, dressed in thermal tights, three shirts, gloves and balaclava, and navigating icy surfaces in 20 degree temperatures.
“I can’t wait for summer,” he added.
Southey, an avid runner, complains about the weather every winter, a source told Dumb Runner. That same source also noted that he just as reliably complains about summer weather.
“Robert is hilarious,” said the source, who requested anonymity. “Every year he bitches and moans about the cold, from, like, November through March; then he bitches and moans about the heat, from June through August.”
“Sometimes through September,” the source added. “It depends.”
Southey’s complaints about cold-weather running and hot-weather running mirror each other in their intensity and their construction, the source said.
“In February, he’ll gripe nonstop about the wind chill, the temperatures, the lack of relief,” said the source. “In July, he’ll gripe nonstop about the humidity, the temperatures, the lack of relief.”
“Last summer he would not shut up about how hot it was, how unbearable, how he had to wake up at 5 a.m. to get his run in before things got too hot, etc.,” the source recalled. “And yeah, he absolutely kept saying that he couldn’t wait for winter.”
Reached for comment, Southey confirmed that he’s no fan of cold weather.
“I did 16 miles yesterday, and my fingers and toes were totally numb,” he said. “I’ve had about enough of this crap.”
“I really can’t wait for summer.”
