| Runners are Wimps in Heat |
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Runners are absolute wimps and cry babies when it comes to running in a little heat. I am a 11 time Ironman veteran and have rarely run a marathon (this is after swimming 2.4 miles and cycling 112 miles) in temperatures as cool as Boston is going to be tomorrow. Granted I'm not doing 2:08 marathons - more like 2:40 to 2:55, but I think it is ridiculous how big of wimps and crybabies runners are when it comes to running in a little heat. Discuss: |
| Buster M. |
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Your thread title has nothing to do with your post. Discuss. |
| Weitzleberg |
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I don't know. I love running in a dry heat then coming up a house where somebody watering their lawn and asking them to drench me with the water house; and they oblige. Thanking them and taking off. Nice feeling. |
| Michael Boobly |
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Last time I checked pro triathletes got to Hawaii two weeks before Kona to adapt to the heat and humidity in addition to whatever previous summer training they've done. A lot of people racing Boston are coming off months of training in sub-50 degree temperatures. Asking the body to go balls to the wall without any sort of heat adaptation is pretty harsh. I could see a lot runners pushing their body past their limits. That said, I agree with you-- runner need to HTFU and race each other without worrying about the clock, though that seems to be the general consensus on the message boards anyways |
| YourNameHere |
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If you are running 2:40-2:55 at the end of an Ironman, we probably would know your name. Since you didn't give it, you probably are not running that fast. More likely, you are a troll and have never finished either an Ironman or a Marathon. The idea that runners should just "suck it up" and run hard anyway in bad conditions misses the point of why most runners run a Marathon. They are there to run a PR or a goal time. And weather affects times. The competition is largely meaningless beyond the first 10 finishers. Running a 2:40 in Boston, Chicago, NYC, etc. is only important to the person running it. So you suggest training for months then "suck it up" and race with some stranger to out kick them for 432nd place and a crappy time because of the weather? Meanwhile the body damage is compounded by the conditions. Sounds pointless to me. Save it for another day. |
| Lemon Harangue |
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I think his username was supposed to be "Try Guy." |
| sp!kes |
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that is gay. you are lame... and gay. writing that post is gay too. If I saw you do that I would think you are stupid and seeking attention and lame. I would be right. |
| Perc |
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Hey Runners are Wimps--your post displays your total ignorance--sure, I bet you are an 11 time Ironman vet. A guy who's done the Ironman 11 times wouldn't put up a post like you did. |
| asdfl;ads |
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OP is obviously a troll. But, I do tend to agree with him: pure runners tend to get a bit dramatic about how hot a given race is. Triathletes and ultrarunners (ultrarunners especially) tend to be a bit less dramatic about how hot race day will be/is. |
| redux |
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Don't some ultra runners go out of their way to run in really hot conditions? |
| Peace Out |
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Literally, such as Badwater. I don't understand why anyone would put themselves through that, but more power to them. |
| Magic 8 Ball |
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I ran the Ragnar Relay in SoCal last year, and my final leg was a 9 miler at 12 noon in 90 degree weather. It was in the La Jolla area, and I ran past a house where two teenage girls were frolicking in their bikinis with a hose. No lie. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. This was truly like one of those bad "guy goes up to a farm, don't sleep with my daughter" kind of jokes, but was happening to me. But being a 45 year-old guy with two kids at home, I simply asked for a drink from the hose, poured it over my head for quick second, and hoped like hell the guys in my van would believe the story. |