I'm going to south korea for 2 weeks and it is going to extremely humid (between 85 - 95%) and I'm wondering if training in this humidity will do wonders for my training for September's cross country season?
Also any other asian runners here on Letsrun?
Run early in the morning. If you're in Seoul, there's a great roadway near the Han river. A lot of other runners, bikers. The humidity sucks but you can mitigate its effects
I've always found that it helps me when the weather turns cooler and drier in the fall. It is a training stress like hills.
You can also run around Namsan, where there's rolling hills and shade cover. If you're in the south of Seoul, you could head over to Seoul National University as that's pretty open and you could get a hilly or flat run in. Most of Seoul is very congested, but around Yongsan (central area, just north of the river) you can run along a lot of the roads/sidewalks.
Herro. my advice to you is to run in the morning. also be prepared it is going to be humid. good luck and running for 2 weeks in the weather will not do **** dumb***.
WorldCup2008 wrote:
I'm going to south korea for 2 weeks and it is going to extremely humid (between 85 - 95%) and I'm wondering if training in this humidity will do wonders for my training for September's cross country season?
Also any other asian runners here on Letsrun?
Being from a humid area, run early in the morning, or else it will suck. While your body will adapt to the heat and humidity, 2 weeks is not enough time to see any real affects. And honestly, the only benefit I have seen from it is that you are better in humid conditions, not that you improve when the humidity is taken away.
It's kind of funny to see runners from perfect New Mexico come run in the Gulf area of Texas and complain. "How do you deal with this humidity? It's like we're swimming through air"
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You know there's different kind of Asians right?
WorldCup2008 wrote:
Also any other asian runners here on Letsrun?
What I found was that I did not lose fitness when I reduced the miles and ran faster when it was hot. What I would do is a 3 mile tempo in the morning and some 200s in the evening, with this, you want lose much in 2 weeks.
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