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Australians have a reputation for outdoor hardiness but I am becoming convinced that this is just a fiction.

I have been enjoying my outdoor exercise class and normally we do lot of outdoor running barefoot on the sand. In the last couple of weeks it has started getting a bit colder and there has been much bitching and moaning about it being too cold to go barefoot and so more exercise has been done on the grass and paths, with our shoes on.

Now they have decided that the winter weather is too extreme and have moved indoors to the hall at the Queenscliff surf lifesaving club, choosing to exercise in a drab, ill-ventilated room rather than brave the biting chill that is the 13˚C low for today.

Admittedly it is raining today as well. Maybe my class is full of the witches of Manly and like the other witches of Oz they will melt if they get out in the rain?