Your model is close to correct, but “ambient temperature” is local to parts of the body, and in some locations cannot normally drop below my actual core body temperature. I’d have to wear ice packs in some mighty weird and highly uncomfortable places to make reality function like a naive version of your model.
OK, though I’m quite surprised if you’re saying that the general outside temperature has no effect whatsoever.
I’m slightly less surprised if you’re saying it has some effect, but that due to localization of heat and the insulation of even light clothing, walking is intense enough to overcome even a chilly autumn or winter night sweatwise.
General outside temperature has an effect on parts of me that are exposed to air. This doesn’t typically include, say, armpits, my scalp under my hair, or certain less G-rated locations—not because of clothes (or rather not entirely because of clothes; they certainly have an effect), but because of other body parts being in the way.
Ah. I was thinking in terms of core body temperature being affected by the external temperature, which seems like it has to happen at least in extreme cases as a simple matter of physics (e.g. if it’s so hot or so cold that it overcomes the body’s ability to self-regulate temperature), but it might not happen in the majority of less extreme cases for some people. I should just take your word for it that you’re one of those people, or close enough for practical purposes.
And it’s probably a bad idea to induce hypothermia in order to go for a run without sweating, so I withdraw my suggestion.
Your model is close to correct, but “ambient temperature” is local to parts of the body, and in some locations cannot normally drop below my actual core body temperature. I’d have to wear ice packs in some mighty weird and highly uncomfortable places to make reality function like a naive version of your model.
OK, though I’m quite surprised if you’re saying that the general outside temperature has no effect whatsoever.
I’m slightly less surprised if you’re saying it has some effect, but that due to localization of heat and the insulation of even light clothing, walking is intense enough to overcome even a chilly autumn or winter night sweatwise.
General outside temperature has an effect on parts of me that are exposed to air. This doesn’t typically include, say, armpits, my scalp under my hair, or certain less G-rated locations—not because of clothes (or rather not entirely because of clothes; they certainly have an effect), but because of other body parts being in the way.
Ah. I was thinking in terms of core body temperature being affected by the external temperature, which seems like it has to happen at least in extreme cases as a simple matter of physics (e.g. if it’s so hot or so cold that it overcomes the body’s ability to self-regulate temperature), but it might not happen in the majority of less extreme cases for some people. I should just take your word for it that you’re one of those people, or close enough for practical purposes.
And it’s probably a bad idea to induce hypothermia in order to go for a run without sweating, so I withdraw my suggestion.