Which college team has the harshest summer training conditions??

Heat isn't so much the problem as humidity. I live in SC and you can forget about running if you wait past 8ish. It gets hot but the humidity kills it. I imagine that any Southern school with high humidity levels has it worst. I mean, it's muggy even running before 6am.

For real. Guarantee a typical 85 temp day in Florida beats anything from say Arizona and California. Texas is probably close in the more coastal areas.

Most summer days are up to the mid 90's and RIDICULOUS humidity. Typically, good runners I know will lose around ten pounds on a typical run. It sucks and doesn't get much worse than that.

Winter rules, though. Sunny most of the time, lower humidity, and 60-70 during the day. Can't wait to run today. :)

There was a thread this summer about how it was still over 100 degrees at 10 pm in New Orleans, and super-duper humid too. Its hard to imagine conditions much worse.

Having run in both central florida and New Orleans in the dead of summer I would say that they feel about the same. I would have to give the edge to florida though when we get the dry spells during the summer where the heat and humidity builds up and it just becomes miserable running at any time of day.

Colorado can be tough. There's usually snow around, even in the summer. And because of the altitude, there is less oxygen to breathe. Not good.

Yes, humidity kills. the heat I have faced in Cali is very dry. I never saw my 105 degree days here as a problem. We had two 120 degree days this early fall though, that felt tough.

I have ran some in central america, Honduras and costa rica. Costa Rica was during the winter. Temps 80-85 and very high humidity. The temperature where I was in Honduras varied more however, from 80-100, again with lots of humidity. Those were harder than most hot dry stuff in Cali.

I spent a summer in northern Florida, and it was actually cooler than NYC when I ran (mornings or nights), but worse in the middle of the day. NYC doesn't cool down at night.

aeriplane wrote:

There was a thread this summer about how it was still over 100 degrees at 10 pm in New Orleans, and super-duper humid too. Its hard to imagine conditions much worse.

85 maybe, but not 100. You were misled

Probably Adams State.

yes it 90 in late may .The weather slowly wears on you.I would say the only bad part was when i typed that it was in july.The last week of june -mid aug is bad.I would say more like mid july- mid aug.The thing about it is not every day is hot (rain so on ).You can get a noon run in july.Since i dont have time to run before work and run on my lunch break .When i run 2 xs a day one run is done if it rains or its somthing lite in the heat the other is done at 11 30 pm area.That run is to add some miles.Or some times i run after work at 630 pm or so and run again at 11 30 pm.I ran a race this year in sept mid in the mid west and all the runners were falling out and i was like this is not that bad i train in this .By the way i live in new orleans.

University of South Alabama, Tulane, Southeast Louisiana University, South Florida, Florida State, McNeese State, University of Florida, anything near Houston.

College Station Texas

I'm from NC myself, and I just cannot make it past about 15-18 miles for a long run in the summer (really like May-September). If I do any workouts I can't go more than about 30 minutes because my shoes fill up with sweat. Every year at least one high school football player dies. It's brutal. And I don't even live in the DEEP South.

Our team rents a cabin on Mercury for the summer. It's hot there but really provides a good callousing effect.

My vote would go to any school in the New Orleans or Phoenix areas. Ungodly conditions in the summer.

Heat Miser wrote:

Our team rents a cabin on Mercury for the summer. It's hot there but really provides a good callousing effect.

Wuss. We always went to Venus.