How do you people stand the south?

Who you callin' "you people"?!

You got a pretty mouth on you, boy.....

And y'all up north need some grammar lessons:

"It felt soooo could to come back to the north."

You get used to it a little bit. This is my first summer here in NC and its been hot as hell. But running today (high of 105 here in Raleigh) wasn't as bad as it was two weeks ago when it was as hot. You acclimate, it hasn't felt completely comfortable but it was ok. Hopefully this trend continues.

The Mayor

Number one we capitalize South. That's number one.

stay indoors most of the day

I spent a lot of my childhood in the Carolinas. It was cool. As in, nice and groovy. The heat was oppressive at times, but you worked around it. You just knew there would be ten or twenty really bad days in the summer, and in compensation you'd have a damp, balmy winter, and you wouldn't ever freeze your knees off waiting for the school bus for two hours in the winter because the driver couldn't get through the ten-foot snowdrifts because the county hadn't plowed the roads yet at 9 in the morning.

I guess you had to be there. Both places.

F'ing 100° everday here for weeks, we had our first day of rain in three weeks and that just kicked up the humidity a notch. I know why the life expectancy was only 40 or so back in the early 1900's. It was too f'ing hot!!!!!!!! If I didn't have air conditioning I would give up and want to die too!

yea, seriously i don't know about living here for any extended period of time by choice. I just moved here from CA for work, and it's really nasty even at the beaches most days. What happened to the cool ocean breezes like out west?

I've lived all over the South and North.

I have yet to find a states whose weather is better than NC year round.

It might be hot in the Summer but only for a few days. The rest of the summer its in the 80s and 90s. Which seems bad but you get used to it.

Today it got as high as 108 where I was at but as soon as the sun started to drop the temp dropped to 87.

The best part is the winters. It will be in the 60s and 70s through the winter in a lot of places in NC. Up North it was just miserable cold during about 6 months of year.

In NC its running weather almost year round except for August.

Then again its all about where you were raised and what your body can handle. I can't stand the cold. I love the heat and good hard run. So it comes down to personal preference.

I have a two buddies one from Ohio and the other from Chicago. Both say that the reason they moved down South was because of the weather and both say they will never go back because of the weather up there. Like I said before it's all about personal preference.

Only losers live in the south

I wake up 10 miles before the sun comes up to get my running in before it gets to hot.

I am from the chicago area and after joining the Army (82nd airborne) and spending 3 and half yrs at Ft. Bragg, N.C. I can tell you I have never felt heat like that up North(Illinois)...never! The heat is different for sure! It it crazy hot! Yes, it gets hot and humid in Illinois but nothing like North Carolina! I feel lucky to be back home in Illinois and will never forget how lucky I am to be back home.......even on the hottest days!

you think north carolina is bad why dont you just drive 7 hours south. then get back to me.

Run before AM, or run after 8 PM.

Southerners are better looking. Come down to one SEC football game and tell me otherwise.

PaleFaces wrote:

Southerners are better looking. Come down to one SEC football game and tell me otherwise.

And then sit at a southern state's spelling bee and figure out where the gene pool is headed.

The fattest, laziest and dumbest people on the planet are in the South. I make millions.

No kidding. Set a record in Tampa at 96 here and the index was higher. As much as I love summer, man it stunts my running.....

No kidding. Set a record in Tampa at 96 here and the index was higher. As much as I love summer, man it stunts my running.....

cool distance guy wrote:

OK this is kind of a troll but really its not. I just got back from spending a week on the Ocean in NC. I could not stand the heat.

Even with the ocean breezes and its cooling effect it was miserable and exhausting. How do you function let alone run in that heat?

At least with the cold you can dress warm and workout to warm up.

It felt soooo could to come back to the north.

I generally deal with the South, and the heat in general, by not being a huge pussy.

That really seems to help, I suggest you give it a try.