It Was 107 In Dallas Today How the Hell Do You Do It?

I know, you've prolly ran in hotter.

Prolly WTF language is that? And that line about being warm blooded...

That proves who the dumbass is here.

Look you PROVED my point.. when it's cold you can only comfortbably put on so many clothes to make it warm. (That means you could wear a parka if needed and be uncomfrtable.)

When it's hot all you can do is get down to shorts, socks, and shoes. You can not take off more than that.

Im not saying that the cold doesnt suck, but the heat will kill you quickly.

I gotta say I agree with deuchebaggery. Blaze, I am guessing that you don't know what real training is. Only someone who has never really tried to train in different climates can make such statements. You cannot hit 20x400 in 65 seconds in hot weather - you will die. In cold weather? Yes, it's possible - on plowed roads if there's snow on the track. Yes, cold weather sucks, too, but it's not as much of a hinderance to training.

This time of the year I always start thinking about how the heck I'm going to get out of Texas and move north. I usually deal fairly well with the heat until August starts. For some reason August and September kill me! Its not really any hotter than June and July but mentally I'm cooked.

Its certainly fun going for runs when its 65 or 70 in the middle of the winter but people that have never lived here I don't think can fully grasp that we earn those nice winters with a extended hell summer!

I think I need to move to Southern California.........

When is it 65 or 70 in the winter? More like in the 30's, which I know isn't all that cold, but it's a wet cold. Lots of ice, sleet, wind.

Where are you? Dallas?

In Austin the average high in January (coldest month of year) is 60 or 61. Sure we have a few cold weeks here and there but for every 50 degree day we have a 70 degree day. Most winters we have some days here and there close to 80.

I will agree that the 30's seem ungodly miserable here. Not sure if its because of humidity or if I'm just so used to warmth that the few weeks a year it is actually kinda cold it feels like I'm in Alaska.

wejo wrote:

Having grown up in Dallas for the first 18 years of my life...

First off, as a 3-time visitor of Dallas, it is the most boring, bland big city I've ever been to. Others I know who've visited, unanimously agree. I only go to visit a friend.

Far as running in the heat.... I'm from the cold midwest, but lived in Memphis for a couple years. I didn't avoid the heat at all, but embraced it. 100F (not quite same as 107F) the entire summer and I was out there every mid-day (worked 2nd shift). By the 2nd year, I adapted and had zero problem with it. The opportunity's there for runners to get used to hot temps... if only they gut it out for 1+ summer.

ttc wrote:

wejo wrote:

Having grown up in Dallas for the first 18 years of my life...

First off, as a 3-time visitor of Dallas, it is the most boring, bland big city I've ever been to. Others I know who've visited, unanimously agree. I only go to visit a friend.

Far as running in the heat.... I'm from the cold midwest, but lived in Memphis for a couple years. I didn't avoid the heat at all, but embraced it. 100F (not quite same as 107F) the entire summer and I was out there every mid-day (worked 2nd shift). By the 2nd year, I adapted and had zero problem with it. The opportunity's there for runners to get used to hot temps... if only they gut it out for 1+ summer.

Dallas would probably be a pretty horrible place to visit, but it isn't half bad when you live there. There is a good mix of restaurants (most per capita in the US), bars, and sporting events to go to (or participate in).

Dallas is a horrible place to visit and a worse place to live.

It's not a bad place to live, just not a good place to run during summer days.

It's tougher to be a distance runner in Texas, or any souther hot climate than it is anywhere else. FACT

So true... The heat breaks you down a little further each day.

It's like a nagging injury; you deal with the pain until you just can't shift it away anymore and you declare yourself "injured" where the run before you were "healthy."

I lived in Dallas for a summer and in the middle of a distance run in late Aug. I was listening to the sweat squish in my shoes and officially accepted defeat.

Needless to say I will never live in Dallas. No job, and no amount of $ could drag me back. As some poster wrote "I would rather be homeless in SF".

I'll say that it definitely isn't fun.

But it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

I've put in several summers of 80-110 miles per week.

And I've raced fast in the fall.

You run at 6AM and 7:30PM.

What's the big deal?

First, lots of people are exaggerating on this thread.

Second, lots of whining going on in this thread. Sure, it's tough to run in extreme heat. It's also tough to run in extreme cold. You either decide it's worth it or you quit and find another hobby. Either way, it's your choice. So stop whining about it.

Finally, as soon as I saw the topic heading, I knew the thread would include lots of Texas bashing. It didn't dissapoint. I've lived in Texas since birth and love it, but understand why visitors wouldn't. As they say, great place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit. All I can say is that Texas must have something people like as four of the top ten fastest growing metropolitan statistical areas in the nation are in Texas (DFW, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio). For a place that supposedly sucks so bad, lots of people keep moving here.

I know it's tough PERIOD! I've lived here all my life. Not just on distance runners but for any athlete that has to practice in it on summer days. I know it can't be done but cross country season and football season should be moved to later in the year. Not for meet or game purposes but becuase of practice safety.

radishes wrote:

First, lots of people are exaggerating on this thread.

Right about that. Yesterday, the high in Dallas was 89. That broke the longest triple diget streak of the year...at 12 days. So stop this, "It's 100+ every day for months and months..." That's just not true.

Another Dallasite wrote:

radishes wrote:

First, lots of people are exaggerating on this thread.

Right about that. Yesterday, the high in Dallas was 89. That broke the longest triple diget streak of the year...at 12 days. So stop this, "It's 100+ every day for months and months..." That's just not true.

12 days straight of 100+ is still very difficult weather to run in. But yes, everyone exaggerates their weather and claims the worst of it as the norm.

And you can probably get a lot longer 100+ streaks by using the standard trick of claiming the heat index as the temperature. (The other form of this is NE/MW runners claiming the windchill as the temperature in the winter.)

Living in the Past wrote:

Dallas is a horrible place to visit and a worse place to live.

LITP, aren't you a native?

Yeah, and I never go back.

radishes wrote:

For a place that supposedly sucks so bad, lots of people keep moving here.

Haven't you figured it out yet? All of us bashing Texas are Texans trying to stop the flow of people moving here.

I think the people who mentioned that it just eventually wears on you are probably correct. The biggest problem is that it just nevers cools off enough during the summer to allow the body to recover. When the lows are in the 80s, it's just difficult because of the humidity.

I looked at Lubbock's weather for the other day. It got up to 100, but it was 66 that morning. I could live with that. The mornings provide an opportunity to get some decent training in before it gets too hot.