Have everyone in the 5000m men and 10000m women compete in wet suits... even playing field
Have everyone in the 5000m men and 10000m women compete in wet suits... even playing field
This is gonna be epic
Athlete Safety First wrote:
That degree of heat is not healthy to be doing strenuous exercise.
It will impact certain events more than others.
Forcing kids to compete in face mask was way more dangerous yet some states didn't have a problem enforcing that ridiculous policy. And many people cheered and defended the nonsense.
Does anyone know if NBC will air the womens 10K at the rescheduled time (10am pst)? Or is there a way to watch it live?
you can look this up on weather.gov which is where all the other websites get their data
lower humidity but still crazy high temps
https://i.imgur.com/f1XCzeg.png
and also re: comparing to Florida, no Florida always has stupid high humidity, the dewpoint is always the same as the air temperature so it feels insane because there's no evaporation of sweat, etc. - some people like to compare it to the effort of "training at altitude" but that makes no sense at all because with altitude you "train low, live high" and in Florida you do the opposite, live low (in A/C) and then train high in the humidity with low oxygen, it's actually counter-productive to physical training but good "mental training" I guess
Comments like this drive me nuts. It has never been 100 degrees with 90% humidity in the recorded history of the world. Not anywhere. Not ever. And it has never been 100 degrees with 80% humidity in the recorded history of the United States. Not anywhere. Not ever. Humidity is a relative measure. When it's 100 degrees in DC, humidity is less than 50%. Always. Don't believe me, look at a dew point calculator. Stop talking out of your @ss and learn something about weather.
hotnhumid wrote:
Huh?
It absolutely gets hot and humid in the South.
100 degrees + 80-90% humidity is a pretty normal summer day here in DC. The humidity is even worse further south.
Temp forecast now 113 F..........
Wait a minute here. This is supposed to be the greatest track in the world. Phil, did you forget to add air conditioning?
Just Tape Delay Races wrote:
jamese wrote:
That does seem reasonable. But there may be reactions to the sprinklers quite different from what is intended.
Once in the final miles of a very hot marathon 97% a guy in the neighborhood helpfully began spraying runners with his garden hose. A group I was in was like a death march from heat and hallucinations. When the cold water hit me and a couple other guys we nearly passed out. One brave guy went over and grabbed the hose f rye on him. Thermo shock was worse than the heat.
An optional fine mist station along a road race is probably much safer than the a cold and heavy soaking from a garden hose. I have seen a misting station
used at the Crim race where runners can go to one side of the course to run thru the mist.
Good idea.
forecast is now for 111 degrees...
Not necessarily. I was told that this freakishly warm weather out there only usually happens once every 10 or 20 years.
Not necessarily. I was told that this freakishly warm weather out there only usually happens once every 10 or 20 years.
runinthewind wrote:
Does anyone know if NBC will air the womens 10K at the rescheduled time (10am pst)? Or is there a way to watch it live?
I was wondering this as well. Haven't had a chance to seek out an answer elsewhere yet.
You spelled 112 wrong
No f*$ck given, the best will win. They're supposed to be the greatest athletes in the world, not some karens having a stroke in her car because the AC broke down.
Never raced in such a heat, but I've run multiple times on similar heats, and even hard 40min tempos on 112 fahrenheit.
You definitely feel it, and it definitely impacts your performance.
With that said, I wouldn't say it's dangerous if they manage well their time up to the race and minimize their time in the heat and under the sun.
hotnhumid wrote:
100 degrees + 80-90% humidity is a pretty normal summer day here in DC. The humidity is even worse further south.
How can people who actually live there believe this myth?
Yes it gets hot. Yes it gets humid. NO it does not get hot and humid at the same time!
Here's the 10-day forecast for DC. Mid-90's temps are predicted within a few days. On the graph below is the light green line for relative humidity. One can easily see the humidity dips to below 50% as the temperature peaks.
As the temperature drops in the evening, humidity goes back up. This simply means the cooler air is closer to saturation. That's when you're sitting on the porch, slapping mosquitos and the air feels a bit sticky and you say "gosh it's so hot and humid here," except it's more like 80 degrees at that point.
RH doesn't hit 90 until dawn.
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/dc/washingtonumm, nope wrote:
Comments like this drive me nuts. It has never been 100 degrees with 90% humidity in the recorded history of the world. Not anywhere. Not ever. And it has never been 100 degrees with 80% humidity in the recorded history of the United States. Not anywhere. Not ever.
Humidity is a relative measure. When it's 100 degrees in DC, humidity is less than 50%. Always. Don't believe me, look at a dew point calculator.
Stop talking out of your @ss and learn something about weather.
hotnhumid wrote:
Huh?
It absolutely gets hot and humid in the South.
100 degrees + 80-90% humidity is a pretty normal summer day here in DC. The humidity is even worse further south.
Colloquially we call it “humidity,” but really we mean Relative Humidity (RH). I grew up saying, “100 degrees with 90 percent humidity.” Although we dropped Fahrenheit and Relative from the sentence, no scientists ever corrected us.
RH can be over 100%
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidityDude, I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your comment. It's either a great troll response (and very subtly tongue in cheek) or, I'm sorry, but you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Of course I'm talking about relative humidity. Relative humidity is a %. Absolute humidity is not expressed as a percentage. In other words, no sh!t sherlock. And you're just wrong. It has never been (I repeat: NOT ONCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD) 100F+ with 90%+ relative humidity. Hotter air can hold more moisture, so when it gets to 100F in the US it is almost always at 50% or less humidity. When you see those 80% or higher humidity numbers, the air temperature is MUCH lower than 100F. As Bad Wigins said, that happens first thing in the morning typically. It's fine that you don't know this, but to correct someone on here when you don't know what you're talking about...smh
um yup wrote:
umm, nope wrote:
Comments like this drive me nuts. It has never been 100 degrees with 90% humidity in the recorded history of the world. Not anywhere. Not ever. And it has never been 100 degrees with 80% humidity in the recorded history of the United States. Not anywhere. Not ever.
Humidity is a relative measure. When it's 100 degrees in DC, humidity is less than 50%. Always. Don't believe me, look at a dew point calculator.
Stop talking out of your @ss and learn something about weather.
Colloquially we call it “humidity,” but really we mean Relative Humidity (RH). I grew up saying, “100 degrees with 90 percent humidity.” Although we dropped Fahrenheit and Relative from the sentence, no scientists ever corrected us.
RH can be over 100%
https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity
Yeah def Asian U.S track athlete…..oh wait
