I have lived in Houston, North Carolina, and S Florida... Not sure I'd ever say 90+ with dew point around 70 is fine :D But... yeah, you acclimate, you slow down, you hydrate, you survive. Love it when I end up in a dry place where it's like 85F and 15-20% humidity... so amazing.
fastboy77 wrote:
Not sure. But I recall doing a 4 mile tempo run in 20 min a few years back. In 95 degree heat. Heat doesn't phase me.
Heat hardly fazes me either. Just run slow and drink a lot.
If it to hot don’t run . If it’s not run.
My club has two runners who did the Death Valley festival of races (run in the middle of the day in summer.) One I talked to said he drank a gallon of water an hour.
That wins. I cannot think of many hotter places than Death Valley in the middle of the day in summer!
120 degrees F. Officially the hottest place on Earth (134 degrees).
Bad Wigins wrote:
Guess it's that time of year again where people start saying "hot and humid." If your temps are in the 90s, trust me it is not humid. Might get humid in the evening when it cools off though. Maybe if you're in the Arabian desert where the high is 120F it will be humid at 95 later.The real issue is that it's close to body temperature, which dramatically increases how much you have to sweat to avoid overheating. Even after you are acclimated, and have tek shirts and etc, there's an absolute limit to how fast sweat can cool you. Even if you're fully hydrated! Then you can only slow your runs down and generate less heat.
All those people who prefer to go swimming in the summer have a point. They are the smart ones. That includes the Arabians.
I know some "hot n' humid" dope will start coping at me, so here is the 10 day forecast for the Arabian capital of Riyadh. Currently it's 94F and forecast to hit 106 later. The lows will be in the low 80s and this will continue all week. At no point is the humidity forecast to reach even 30%. Hot is dry.
so asinine.
because one city in the world has high temps with low humidity, you extrapolate that for the entire world. There's a difference between dry AZ heat, and muggy South Florida heat.
I wonder how one individual can possibly be wrong about virtually everything.
Cross Country Runner wrote:
120 degrees F. Officially the hottest place on Earth (134 degrees).
I agree but it wasn't on that day (was it?).
The most humid and uncomfortable I have ever been was in South Korea during monsoon season. It rarely got above 90 but between the humidity and air pollution I was hurtin.
Alan
Today was about 82 degrees, 79 dew point when I ran. I ran a pretty good two mile LT run. Didn't want to linger out there. I felt really good because my weight was up a few pounds and I was fully hydrated before the run.