No one has got to be doing anything fast here or they will be crap in a month or so when it gets cool.How do you train for the next month?
No one has got to be doing anything fast here or they will be crap in a month or so when it gets cool.How do you train for the next month?
Run on a treadmill in an air conditioned building (gym, home, etc.).
new orleans wrote:
No one has got to be doing anything fast here or they will be crap in a month or so when it gets cool.How do you train for the next month?
Hahahaha it doesn't become bearable until the middle of September at the earliest. Really, just run easy and don't pay attention to your pace. I regularly have to train 50-60 s/mile slower than I do in Oct-April. Make your schedule flexible. If it happens to storm and the temperature drops to ~80, try to get in a tempo that day. You CAN increase your fitness, but it takes much patience.
Just wondering, why are you in New Orleans? Headed out to the trail race Sunday morning?
no i was thinking about it but i am looking at a full sept of cc races.I might get in a cc race that a club some distance away is putting on.Its every tusday 3 mile cc and 2 mile right after.I just do this on and week on weekof thing .Though the course is way slow like the trail thing.
Balls...big brass balls
Start by growing one. Then grow another.
You just do it every day. You never get used to it.
I'm from NY, but I did spend a summer in Florida. If you've waited until 1130, you've waited too long. I know its still real hot in the morning but its a heck of alot better than waiting.
Find a shaded route and drink a lot of water. Maybe there is a route near a lake or pool that you could jump in, do an out an back to a lake. We had a 108 heat index in Minneapolis and that is what I did. If you include heat index and windchill, I have a 150f span of temps this year for running, same for my dog.
1. Man-up and realize you can't change the weather, only your reaction to it.
2. Run early in the morning.
3. Have access to water.
4. Realize that a bunch of people ran 130 miles from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney earlier this week, some of which was in 120+ degree temperatures. This puts your little 9 mile training run in perspective.
5. Run without a shirt on.
6. Run on concrete.
If you are not willing to follow this advice then you need to find a new sport, like curling.
As one poster used to say "just run baby".
He/She has been banned I guess.
TViewer wrote:
As one poster used to say "just run baby".
He/She has been banned I guess.
Wow, sorry to go off topic, but do the Brojos actually ban annoying posters like that? Haven't heard from Ed WhitCock for awhile either so I sure hope that's what happened to that guy.
Back on topic, the poster who said early morning had it spot on. I don't live in NO, but it does get VERY hot and humid where I am. I go at 5am and am done before it gets unbearably hot.
Snatch wrote: Maybe there is a route near a lake .... that you could jump in, do an out an back to a lake.
Really? Wanna rethink telling someone to jump in a lake in New Orleans? Have you been to the deep South? Heard of alligators?
Mrs. M wrote:
Really? Wanna rethink telling someone to jump in a lake in New Orleans? Have you been to the deep South? Heard of alligators?
No worries, Obama told me they're all covered in oil and won't bother you.
Mrs. M: Really? Wanna rethink telling someone to jump in a lake in New Orleans? Have you been to the deep South? Heard of alligators?
Mrs. M, are you suggesting our swamp tour guide was pulling our collective legs when he insisted only crocodiles pick on humans, gators being so sweet-natured that the couple of people who managed to instigate them to attack required prolonged nonstop provocation to do so?
I ran a 32:20 10,000 on the Tulane track - 84 degrees @ 10:00PM in early May, back in the day.
The 24x7 oppressive heat and humidity wears on you after a while. Sometime in early October, it doesn't suck quite as much.
NO's for wimps. How do you train in Baghdad? How do you live there?
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I can't get my mind around running XC in such heat! I'm from Britain and know rain, mud, and did I mention rain?
You grow balls.
Fortunately if you're in New Orleans you probably already have them.
There really is no way around it. The best you can hope for is that you get used to it, and you will, after a while; but even then you can still expect to have some tough days and some slow days. You should stick to the shade and, if you can, the trails: Audubon Park, City Park, St. Charles Avenue are all decent places to get in some good miles.