I think that's a good point about losing the benefits of heat training quickly but it's always good to remind yourself that no matter how much slower you think you're getting in summer, as soon as the cool weather comes you'll be ready to roll.
I think that's a good point about losing the benefits of heat training quickly but it's always good to remind yourself that no matter how much slower you think you're getting in summer, as soon as the cool weather comes you'll be ready to roll.
I don't enjoy it, but have to tolerate the Japanese summer. So that's a few months of running in ~90F heat with humidity ranging between 60-90%...
What's awful is the sun rises at like 4am and goes down shortly after 6pm. So this means if you run in the morning, it will be very bright and hot whilst the evening will be hot and humid. Neither are great to run in :/
I end up dropping all speed work / high intensity running and going by HR until the weather gets better. So that means lots of easy miles and LSD if you can (turns out to be a run between vending machines...) The only time I will do harder efforts is when it's raining as the weather tends to cool off (70-80F) whilst remaining humid. It's probably worth investing in a gym membership if you want to do higher intensity workouts in such heat.
I believe it helps afterwards. I tend to outperform my efforts from before the summer. Plus the lower effort levels helps keep any niggles at bay.
This sounds a lot like the sort of weather we have here, yesterday it was about 80 ish degrees, so we did an actual tempo. I felt a lot better on this day, running 7:30, 7:28, 6:55. The race it today a 1.9 mile course, and it seems like the weather will be nice/okay today as well.
You don't need any papers to prove it. Running in hot, humid weather all of the time and living in the stuff makes cooler weather running seem exceptionally easy and the paces drop a ton. I figure that it makes up for the hills. The problem is that you run slower paces and recover a lot more slowly. But in weather that seems hot to northerners, your southern trained runner is going to feel great.
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