Can I be the first to complain about HOT weather?

lasdinaub

posted: 6/16/2007 at 5:24 PM

It's tough to be motivated for a run when it's high 90's or low 100's outside after work! My training will definitely suffer!

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Fanatic #3965

posted: 6/16/2007 at 5:30 PM

My last few long runs (2 hours) have been in the 80s...I don't like it. BUT I think I prefer it to the nasty -0 stuff of a few months ago. It's really not so bad until the last few miles when I don't have any shade to run in. The last 30 minutes of today's run had my pace in the toilet and I was getting some chills and queasiness, even after guzzling lots of Gatorade and water. That's when I really am glad that I am limiting my long runs to just 2 hours for the entire Summer. I don't know how you folks do that 90s and above stuff at all. k

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

Mississippi

posted: 6/16/2007 at 5:55 PM

I DON'T LIKE RUNNING IN THE HEAT. At all. My summer will be full of a lot of treadmill and early early morning running.

littlem

posted: 6/17/2007 at 1:12 AM

yeah, i was surprised to feel so dead today, but there it was. this past winter, i ran a lot in california where it was in the 70s, as it was in nj today... but california january 70s is soooo much less humid! so much easier to run in! today i was dying! also, i took off my watch to go to a birthday thing tonight and everyone made fun of me for my farmer's tan around my watch line. i wear spf 45, but still. by june, there's quite a contast, i guess. summer!

jEfFgObLuE

More Cowbell!

posted: 6/17/2007 at 6:09 AM

I suck suck suck at running in the heat. All of my PRs above 1-mile occurred in cool weather months and/or unseasonably cold days. (1-mile and under are too short to be heat-affected). Through the track season, I was notorious for getting worse in the 2-mile even as I improved at the 800m and mile because it was getting hotter each meet. In my last ever track meet on a hot June day, I managed to win the 1-mile and set an all-time personal worst in the 2-mile. Dead

That's why my favorite road races are the really early spring and late fall ones. Best time of year to run -- I'll race in 40's over 80's any day.

When you're on your deathbed, you won't be wishing that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will be wishing that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.

Bonkin

posted: 6/17/2007 at 11:05 AM

Starting to rack up a lot of 90 degree days now here in ~~Hell~~ Texas and the 100 degree days are not far off. After a stint of trying the early morning running, I'm really starting to enjoy the night running. At 9pm, I get the kids in bed, get dressed and head out. It's a bit warmer than early morning, but I don't have the pressure of being late to work on those days I wish I could just run an extra mile or two.

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PWL

posted: 6/17/2007 at 1:04 PM

Just finished an 11-miler this afternoon. It was between 85-88 and humid with NO wind movement at all. Argh--it was frickin miserable and super slow! Tongue

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paigeypoo

posted: 6/17/2007 at 3:49 PM

Does anybody else have "Ozone Action Days"? We've had them all weekend, where you're basically advised to do NO strenuous work outside, don't drive, etc. Which means I haven't gone out to run in the past couple days...but tomorrow I'm going to have to suck it up and go out. Probably early in the morning. Tongue

"If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it."

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Fanatic #3965

posted: 6/17/2007 at 4:18 PM

Quote from paigeypoo on 6/17/2007 at 3:49 PM:

Does anybody else have "Ozone Action Days"? We've had them all weekend, where you're basically advised to do NO strenuous work outside, don't drive, etc. Which means I haven't gone out to run in the past couple days...but tomorrow I'm going to have to suck it up and go out. Probably early in the morning.

Yeah, we have those a lot around here thanks to humidity and the crap that floats over the lake from Chicago, Milwaukee, and Gary. If I didn't run on those days I'd not be able to run very often, unfortunately. I simply take my inhaler along and my cell phone in case I were to get really ill and need to call for help. k

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

trishierunner

esq.

posted: 6/17/2007 at 8:33 PM

You can be the first but not the last Big grin

2009: BQ?

lasdinaub

posted: 6/17/2007 at 8:48 PM

Quote from Bonkin on 6/17/2007 at 11:05 AM:

... I'm really starting to enjoy the night running. At 9pm, I get the kids in bed, get dressed and head out. It's a bit warmer than early morning, but I don't have the pressure of being late to work on those days I wish I could just run an extra mile or two.

My husband and i have been wanting try a night run, but because we like to stick to trails, it's a little bit more complicated. I think we're going to get flashlights, similar to what ultrarunners use, and try one soon, making sure we have a back-up to look after the kids while we're out. There's also the bears and moutnain lions to worry more about at night.

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lasdinaub

posted: 6/17/2007 at 8:51 PM

Quote from trishierunner on 6/17/2007 at 8:33 PM:

You can be the first but not the last

Knowing the Indian Summers (is that a PC term these days?) we have here, I just may be Wink

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St Joe Rob

posted: 6/17/2007 at 9:22 PM

Quote from lasdinaub on 6/17/2007 at 8:48 PM:

There's also the bears and moutnain lions to worry more about at night.

I'll take my MO heat and humidity over bears and mountain lions any day!!! Cool

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways.... totally worn out ....shouting...."Holy S**t....What a ride!"

Mississippi

posted: 6/17/2007 at 10:11 PM

Quote from trishierunner on 6/17/2007 at 8:33 PM:

You can be the first but not the last

So true. Hot weather brings out the complaint in most of us! Angry

Mississippi

posted: 6/17/2007 at 10:13 PM

Quote from paigeypoo on 6/17/2007 at 3:49 PM:

Does anybody else have "Ozone Action Days"? We've had them all weekend, where you're basically advised to do NO strenuous work outside, don't drive, etc. Which means I haven't gone out to run in the past couple days...but tomorrow I'm going to have to suck it up and go out. Probably early in the morning.

I'm not sure if we do, but tonight while my aunt was visiting she made some comment about how the ozone possibly made her feel sick today. I shrugged it off, but maybe she wasn't too far off from reality. Confused

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