What's the worst wind you've ever run in? (Read 893 times)

I did a 5 miler at lunch with 35 mph sustained and 50-55 mph gusts out of the South. About 30% of my route was into the wind. It was crazy hard to run that direction. It prevents you from building up any momentum, so it really works your legs out.

Dude, I want to know what the worst fog you've ever run in?

... my own.

In college, we ran to the park to do 1200 meter repeats on the grass towards the end of cross country season, I think this was my freshman year but might have been sophomore year. Towards the end of the workout, it started to rain. Right after the work, it started to rain hard. A few of the guys tried to convince the coach to give us a ride back but he wouldn't have any of it and told us to stop being Nancies. So as we go back, the trail we took was flooded. One of the guys said, "Well, it's not like we can get any wetter" and tramped right through it. He was wrong. Once off of the trail, we got onto a pretty busy road. It's a normal town road, but it has 5 lanes, and is lined with tall trees on both sides. It's less than a mile from the trail head to the campus, and would usually take us maybe 5 or 6 minutes to run. There was a very stiff headwind, no idea what speeds, but we worked harder on that stretch than we did during the workout and it took us 25 minutes to get to the entrance to the campus. I was the first one to brave a shower, and that was a good 50 or 60 minutes after getting back into the locker room. It was pretty painful, but at least I'd had briefs, running shorts, and pants or tights on with a shirt tucked in that day. Most of the guys only had 1 or 2 layers of protection from the wind. That's probably the worst wind I've run in since I was soaked as well. In terms of strength, I've done some lake running where gusts have literally pushed me backwards on the ice as I ran into it, and have been lifted up momentarily in stride.

In yesterday's nice little flood we supposedly had gusts over 100 mph. But I did not run in it.

Today's run had a gust of 52.2mph w/ sustained winds around 35-40. Ahh... spring in the Rocky Mountains.

The other experience was the Las Vegas Half in 2003. I think I was the only one that had a great race that day. I ran 59:24 for the first 10 miles into a strong head that featured gust of 55 mph. When we finally turned out of the wind, naturally I felt great and ran the last 5k in 17:29 for a 1:16 finish in my only half.

Vegas in 2003 is exactly the one I was thinking of... I had a great time too despite the headwind - great time for me anyway at 1:40 - I think the cold wind made my legs numb so I just kept plowing along. I don't think I've ever been so sore as after that race.

well, this one time in and band camp, someone broke serious wind and ... oh wait, wrong type of wind