Boulder XC Frozen Tundra Nationals!

Ahhh the forecast for the next week! Get ready to suffer in February boys!

Boulder loves ya baby!

Tonight

Partly cloudy. Areas of blowing snow. Very windy. Lows 10 to 16. Northwest winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to 50 mph.

Sunday

Mostly sunny. Areas of blowing snow. Highs in the 30s. West winds 15 to 25 mph.

Sunday Night

Mostly cloudy. Areas of blowing snow. Strong winds. No snow accumulation. Lows 15 to 25. West winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 50 mph increasing to 40 to 55 mph with gusts to around 70 mph after midnight.

Monday

Mostly sunny. Strong winds. Highs in the mid 40s. West winds 30 to 45 mph with gusts to around 60 mph...decreasing in the afternoon.

Thursday and Thursday Night

Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Colder. Highs in the mid 20s. Lows around 5.

Friday and Friday Night

Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs in the teens. Lows around 0.

Saturday

Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs 15 to 25.

How soon people forget how it was in NYC for last year's edition.

Boulder-Denver at its worst is better than anywhere on the East Coast at its best.

Hey dumba** - the weather on race day has little to do with what is happening now (a month plus before the event). Probably more likely to be sunny and 50 degrees than in the single digits with blowing snow for the XC race.

Help yerself! Mostly cloudy. Strong winds with areas of blowing snow. Lows 16 to 26. West winds increasing to 25 to 40 mph with gusts to 80 mph near the foothills.MondayPartly cloudy. Areas of blowing snow. Strong winds. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. West winds 30 to 45 mph with gusts to around 70 mph becoming northwest 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph in the afternoon.Boulder - XC Nats 2006 WeatherMean Temperature -2 °F Max Temperature 6 °F Min Temperature -11 °F

pearlstreetlou wrote:

Probably more likely to be sunny and 50 degrees than in the single digits with blowing snow for the XC race.

Unless the wind is coming as part of a snowstorm, when the wind blows in Boulder in the winter, it's bad news for the snowpack. It's also bad news for anything on your property that's not securely tied down, but that's another story. Weathermen along Colorado's Front Range often call these chinook winds "snow eaters." The winds are warming winds. They melt the snow, they blow the melting snow away, and they rapidly carry off the water content. It's a long time until February 10, but chances are the conditions will be typical February in Boulder--daytime highs in the mid to high 40s, with nighttime lows in the teens. Chances are the only snow on the ground will be in shady and sheltered spots where large accumulations drifted in previous storms.

For whoever makes the team they better move to Gainesville, Fl to get ready to run in Kenya! They will have about 6 weeks to work on their tan and get acclimatized to warm humid conditions. They should have had the USTAF xc naionals in Gainesville on the very old national xc course (73).

Boulder is a nice locale for the usatf xc nationals. However, having to race in ice cold tundra conidtions at altitude for a sea level tropical worlds xc champs is a little funny.

Last year weather in Mobasa Kenya on March 24, 2006.....

Temperature

Mean Temperature 82 °F / 28 °C

Max Temperature 93 °F / 34 °C

Min Temperature 70 °F / 21 °C

Average Humidity 80

the wind in Boulder wrote:

chances are the conditions will be typical February in Boulder--daytime highs in the mid to high 40s, with nighttime lows in the teens. Chances are the only snow on the ground will be in shady and sheltered spots where large accumulations drifted in previous storms.

Big F'ing Deal! "The winds are warming winds" - but they are blowing 60 MPH!

says who??????????????????????

Says one who lived 10 years in Boulder County :-). Get your fingers off the shift and question mark keys and do a little search on the records. February in Boulder is dry and moderate.

Let's just say you're more likely to have weather conditions favorable for running in Boulder on the second Saturday in February than in Iowa or Indiana on the Monday before Thanksgiving. That should put things in proper perspective.

The worst-case scenario, by the way, is the wind, not the snow or the cold. You can run okay on snow, and you can layer for cold. Running in a hundred-mile-an-hour wind is another story altogether.

i have not heard so much f***ing whining about the weather conditions for a race since high school. grow some testicles, already. boy, six weeks to get ready for hot, humid weather. how could anyone possibly prepare in such a short timeframe?

What do the records have to do with it? What did the records predict for December?

chuck d wrote:

i have not heard so much f***ing whining about the weather conditions for a race since high school. grow some testicles, already. boy, six weeks to get ready for hot, humid weather. how could anyone possibly prepare in such a short timeframe?

Say someone who's never been there and done that.

gosh, yes. where oh where would an american distance runner ever have possibly gained the experience of qualifying for a championship event in cold/moderate conditions and then have to compete in warm, humid ones at the championship. darn, i just can't think of when that could have ever happened.

wait, it just came to me: nearly every ncaa outdoor track championship.

yes ncaa champs = world xc champs....maybe this is why you have small balls

I thought that Boulder was a great place to train all year? So far this year 6 feet of snow, 100MPH wind gusts and sub zero temps. Does Flag have this kind of weather?

Thursday and Thursday Night

Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Colder. Highs in the 20s to lower 30s. Lows around 3.

Friday and Friday Night

Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs around 10. Lows near zero.

Saturday and Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs 5 to 15. Lows around 3 below.

Sunday

Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow. Highs around 19.

The weather is bad karma payback for all the illiterate Boulder asshats who've been posting all of their sneaky little shit talking threads on here. Most of them are too slow to run nationals. Go train or move somewhere else you whining bunch of Boulder pansy wannabes.

Based on these conversations, I wonder why we have only run one "Winter XC" Championship" (Houston) in a quagmire in the past 10 years? That's the most likely World XC conditions and the Buffalo Bayou was a great race! We shoould have it there more often. Should we have changed the race qualifier to be a mud bog on a hourse racing track like one World XC a few years back? Then we ought to go back to Portland where they ran Club Nationals. Did the bitter cold and wind of NYC simulate the conditions of last years Worlds? How about the truely frozen tundra of Indianapolis a couple of years ago? Nothing like a hairpin turn on a frozen puddle and climbing "snow stairs" to simulate the conditions expected at Worlds. The best runners will show up in the best shape they can get into for the winter conditions where they train. If anything, the east and west coast competitors should be thankful that Boulder has been snowed under. The conditions have prevented them from getting in much quality work for three weeks. However, I have found that running in snow in Boulder is about the best training we can find for simulating running in the mud eleswhere - we normally are bone dry in Dec/Jan/Feb and your spikes wear down to nubs with one trip around the CU XC course. Boulder 2007 will make every possible attempt to put on the best race possible.

runfree wrote:

yes ncaa champs = world xc champs....maybe this is why you have small balls

huh? how do the preparations for competing in a warm, humid climate change depending on the level of competition?