In high heat, it seems like the more sleight skinny runners have a particular advantage in distance runs over the more muscled guys. In cooler temperatures, where heat dispersal is less of a critical factor the more muscled guys can do relatively better.
(At least that's my explaination why I died on my run yesterday)
Conundrum wrote:
In high heat, it seems like the more sleight skinny runners have a particular advantage in distance runs over the more muscled guys. In cooler temperatures, where heat dispersal is less of a critical factor the more muscled guys can do relatively better.
(At least that's my explaination why I died on my run yesterday)
Absolutely. Ability to shed heat depends on the ratio of surface area to volume and that is lower for more heavily muscled runners. I have a mesomorphic body type and once I get moving I'm comfortable running in shorts and a t-shirt for most of the winter. Meanwhile some of my female running friends that I outweigh by 60 or 70 pounds are bundling up in multiple layers. Come summer the tables are turned though.
Tadese is rather heavy but did always quite well in the heat (Mombasa, Mumbay, Berlin...)
But in general it´s true: the bigger the more problems
who knows wrote:
Tadese is rather heavy but did always quite well in the heat (Mombasa, Mumbay, Berlin...)
What the hell are you talkin bout? Tadesse is a tiny little man.
I think it has more to do with sheer body weight, or perhaps weight to height ratio, than muscle per se. More heavily muscled people tend to weigh more than weaklings. But I'd guess that, all other things being equal, two people of the same height and weight but with different amounts of muscle (as a proportion of their overall weight) would deal with heat in about the same way. The main source of heat that cooks us in hot weather is the air and sun, not our own muscles working. So people with more muscle don't create significantly more heat, in comparison with less muscled people of the same overall weight. Different heat tolerances have to do more with how efficiently different people can run, and possibly the main factor influencing that is body weight. Obviously there are other factors as well.
All other things equal, yes. For dealing with running in the heat, the smaller the better.
Bergmann's Rule
maybe you can wear an ice vest
mopoff wrote:
The main source of heat that cooks us in hot weather is the air and sun
So as long as it's less than 98.6 degrees, you'll be just fine, right?