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Well today at 6.00am it was 10º at Boot camp, 24º degrees cooler than last Tuesday morning at 6.00am when we had 34.2º.
So when they talk about Melbourne having 4 seasons in a day, I would like to redub that to “Melbourne four extreme seasons in one month”

For the weekend SNOW has been forecast down to 1600 metres in the Alpine areas of Falls Creek and Mt Hotham. Definitely, very extreme weather conditions!

At least we received some much needed rain and some mosquito and fly eradication with the colder temperatures. Funny though when I arrived at 5.45am and there were dark clouds looming in the distance, I said to myself that we will be fine and it will not rain during the session. Guess what, within 10 minutes of finishing the second session from 7.00-8.00am it bucketed with heavy rain. So maybe a coincidence but I must say that it rarely rains during our sessions.

Also a big congrats to all the Fitmates who braved the earlier heavier showers to attend our morning session. Once again it’s about commitment and overcoming the fears and belief systems that hold you back.

Well it seems to be occurring quite regularly, last night we had the Hottest overnight temperature on record in Melbourne at 32.3 degrees at 5.57am.
So by the time we started Boot camp at 6.00am it was almost at the temperature when we cancel the session.

It seems with climate change, we are experiencing these record breaking weather conditions with greater frequency, it was only in Spring last year that we experienced the warmest overnight temperature on record at 30 degrees at 6.00am

The current highest recorded daily minimum temperature (from midnight to 9.00am) was perviously 30.6 set in February 1902, so at 9.00am today, a teenee wenee bit warmer at 30.8.

So what’s next, 25 degrees overnight in Winter?
Hopefully Victoria will be ok with regards to the threat of catastrophic fires in the country areas with no more record breaking overnight minimum temperatures.

Well this morning at our Melbourne Boot camp it was 30 degrees at 6am, normally having a high overnight temperature would be rare for summer, net alone spring, anything to do with Global warming?

I recieved some interesting statistics from Climate Meteorologist, Dr Harvey Stern, Victoria Climate Services Centre Bureau of Meteorology:
*11.1°C: The average minimum temperature for November since records began
*26.3°C The previously warmest over night temperature in 1902, the average minimum temperature for November 1902 12.1
*28.1°C Warmest overnight temperature today, 19/11/09, the average minimum temperature for November 2009 to date 15.9°C

So not quite a normal cycle as the average minimum to date is significantly higher with the warmest average over night temperature being significantly higher with warmer temperatures expected for the next 2 weeks.

The next 50 years will be interesting as the Global temperature has increased 0.76°C from the mid 1850s through to 2005 which is nearly twice the rate for the past 100 years.

It’s a little difficult to predict the changes of a situation we have never experienced before, I liken it to predicting in the 1980′s when the Motorola “Brick” phone was introduced that we would be surfing the internet on “smart” phones. It is a quantum leap as the internet was not used by the general population and no body predicted that anything other than making phone calls would be introduced in the future.

Climate change will create new systems that currently don’t exist or develope more rapidly than we anticipate as did the mobile phone.

So while having warmer weather during our winters may be great for exercising outdoors, the long term effects of having a high overnight temperature in spring are a little worrying.

What an amazing morning with hot air balloons in Melbourne overhead as we trained in the park.
While people were busy have a snooze in bed, we watched as they soared across the morning skies.

No matter how many times I see the Hot air balloons in the morning skies, It always brings a smile to my face.
Being in the inner city of Melbourne, our 2 Boot camp locations seem to be in the right flight path to admire these beautiful airborne craft.

So while it may be hard to venture outside at 6am, you may be rewarded by this amazing site in the morning of hot air balloons as we did in Melbourne.

Fitness Tip: When catching up with a friend go for a walk instead of sitting down for that coffee, you get some bonus calorie burning.

Catch up with a few friends during the week and before you know it, all those coffees and associated extra’s are adding additional unused calories.

So try our Fitness Tip by catching up with a friend and go for a walk instead of that coffee & cake.