For women, the list would include having to compete against trans males
For women, the list would include having to compete against trans males
Basically what I am reading is that any run that is not done when it is from 51 to 55 degrees outside, less than 30% humidity, little to no wind, mostly cloudy, and off pavement is the worst conditions for running.
Try -40 and get back to us. Lived in Alaska for more than decade and we'd get -40s and -50s every year. Forest fires and very bad air quality were part of summer. We'd get it so bad you couldn't see across the street and PM in the 200s.
Just saying it's all amount of degree and depends, so ranking is nearly impossible. Doing a workout in midst of a hurricane or tornado would not be pleasant, would it?
I'd say no conditions are that bad, but somewhat windy conditions with around 40 F temperature and rain is my least favorite. Wind + wet always makes me the most cold, and I've never figured out how to be waterproof while not dying inside an unbreathable layer.
A tie between wildfire season air pollution and high wind thunderstorms. The latter didn’t use to bother me so much till I saw a huge ponderosa get hit by lightning and land across the road maybe 500 yards in front of me. The next day I saw on the news a firefighter died in the same storm, hit by a falling tree. I don’t run in thunderstorms anymore.
Heavy rain when the temperature is sub 40F.
malmo wrote:
track chick wrote:
1. Thunder and lightening - having run in a storm near a golf course, frightening.
I'd keep running. I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite awhile.
I'm having the best run of my life!
Mountain lions.
1) Baltimore.
Tough Running wrote:
4. Snow (Slippery and tricky, but can be done)
LOL - snow is easy as pie. Anything under a foot in no problem. And it's rarely slippery.
Freezing rain runs - now that's slippery and an injury-risk.
For me personally it’s when my garmin doesn’t match the published distance
Running on a giant belt sander that is moving faster and faster. You are struggling to keep up, but the acceleration will throw you from your feet if you stop running and you'll end up getting erased by the sander. You're running 4 flat mile pace and you know you can't keep it up for very long, but you keep pushing through the burning of exertion to delay being turned into a bloody skid mark for just a few more seconds.
Cinderellastory wrote:
malmo wrote:
I'd keep running. I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite awhile.
I'm having the best run of my life!
RAT FARTS
Duquan wrote:
1) Baltimore.
This is the #1 answer.
It’s interesting to see what people consider their worst conditions. For me, I have no problem in high heat, humditdy or air pollution-ran outside during the wildfires in SoCal last year. Sure it wasn’t ideal, but I would take that over freezing cold, ice or rain anyday. Top of the list would probably be freezing temperatures followed very closely by pouring rain. Doing a run soaking wet is the worst.
RunrCA56 wrote:
It’s interesting to see what people consider their worst conditions. For me, I have no problem in high heat, humditdy or air pollution-ran outside during the wildfires in SoCal last year. Sure it wasn’t ideal, but I would take that over freezing cold, ice or rain anyday. Top of the list would probably be freezing temperatures followed very closely by pouring rain. Doing a run soaking wet is the worst.
SoCal fires last year weren't that severe. NorCal fires, on the other hand, were cataclysmic. For an entire month, Sacramento was even more polluted than Delhi and Beijing. No one could have possibly run in that thick smoke, but all the Southerners could at least go outside and get soaked in sweat.
Blowing sand. Running in a southwest desert windstorm sucks.
Running on a fresh inch of grippy snow might be my favorite running condition.
Probably need a qualifier as to how far you are talking about running. Racing an 800 in warmer conditions is preferable than racing in the cold, racing a 10k or marathon in the same would be terrible.
I just hate to run in cold gusty wind. I also hate to run in the heat, anything over 90 and all the joy is gone.
It's hard to start in the cold, but it's hard to finish in the heat. I live in the South so I realize I don't deal with extreme cold, but the heat to me is just a killer. There are days when a 6M run has left me completely wasted.
It's fun to run in the rain. I don't get to run in the snow much so it's more of a novelty when we do get the occasional snow fall. Also the snow is gone quickly so it's not much of a nuisance.
Sleet and hard wind at 10000 feet, you are heading for the top
with the close volcano pouring sulphur and other toxic gases down your lungs.
Tough Running wrote:
Rank your worst weather conditions for running.
Some variations of your list that I think rank somewhere in there:
4-1/2 - 33'ish degrees with a little wind and rain because it's not cold enough to be ice so it soaks you and then stays cold with the wind.
1-1/2? - monsoon where you get several of your list in one fell swoop
I hadn't considered it before, but I think your choice of air pollution is correct as #1, assuming conditions are bad enough and assuming you consider that weather.