We started at about 104 and 45% humidity, and it just kept getting hotter. At Camel, Miranda opened the door to let in some cool air, and it still got hotter. I don't know where it peaked, but my guess is somewhere around 107, and the humidity never went down. It started to get to me in the floor series, but I tried to stay focused and dealt with it pretty well.
On the good side, I was much more flexible than recently. Rabbit seemed especially easy. And I got deeper into the left side of the final stretch. I'm not fully extended yet, but I'm much closer to the floor. In the worst days of my sciatic injury, the knee made about a 90 degree angle in this one. Now, I can almost get it down all the way. And I got back easily on the elbows in second set of fixed firm.
Balancing series, however, was not very good. After a bad first set of Standing Head to Knee, I just locked the knee without kicking out for the second set, and managed to hold the balance both times. Standing Bow was a little better. I fell out once in each part, but held it pretty well before falling forward. And I did fall forward, which is supposed to be good. Balancing Stick was good, as it usually is when the other parts are not.
This was the first class that I've taken immediately after taking my dogs to the park. It was about 50 degrees out, and I played with them without gloves. Then I rushed off to class. Bad idea. The first 20 minutes, my hands had to adjust to the change from 50 degrees to 105 degrees, and they were burning up as a result. It was fairly painful, and it didn't seem like there was anything to do about it. The grips in the early poses made it even worse. So from now on here's an important safety tip: don't jump from an extended stay in cooler weather directly into the hot room.
For some reason the other stupid thing I did wasn't nearly as bad. I left the studio still in my sweaty shorts and shirt, basically drenched, when it was mid 40s outside. And that doesn't bother me at all. Not sure why that change in temperature seems so much easier to take, but there it is.
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