I know Dubai has a big marathon but looking at the summer weather, it looks like unless you used a treadmill most days, you'd die. The temp is over 100 and the dewpoint is like 80. Daily low temps are above 90 for the next several days and then high 80s in august. So any runners in Dubai care to share what training is like right now?
There's a reason obesity rates are so high in those oil rich Middle East countries. Similar to southeast US. Too damn uncomfortable to do anything physical.
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/health/special-report-obesity-rate-in-the-uae-double-the-world-averageSeriously Mate? wrote:
There's a reason obesity rates are so high in those oil rich Middle East countries. Similar to southeast US. Too damn uncomfortable to do anything physical.
holy shi7 man.
I frogging want to move to Bar Harbor.
Qatar has some great distance runners. Must be an ideal place to develop into an athlete
Coach wrote:
Qatar has some great distance runners. Must be an ideal place to develop into an athlete
they live and train in Kenya. I want to know about people living and training in Qatar.
I spent 7 years in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
There are many joggers on the Corniche (sea front promenade) in Saudi Arabia, especially between 18:00 - 22:00.
Ironically, a desert climate is not that bad, because the humidity is usually not so high, except for one or two months a year, when it is a little high.
I now live in Guangzhou, China, and it is around 90 fahrenheit with the same in humidity. I never suffered in Saudi Arabia, because it is mostly dry heat.
You can train well in the Middle East, especially in the more pleasant months from October to March. I would say that December/January/February are ideal training months there, in the Gulf countries, with temps usually around 70 in the daytime and cooler at night.
In the Middle East, and the Gulf in particular, everything is done, on a social level, in the evening and at night.
You can continues to train in the Gulf countries, although many serious runners take to the treadmill from May - September inclusive.
It is not as bad as you might think. Some Saudi distance runners do all their training in Saudi, but there are some mountains there, like at Taif, on the West coast, near Jeddah.
We had one Saudi runner, Moukheld Al Otaibi, during the early part of the 2000s who ran sub 13minutes for 5000.
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I live in Dubai and no, you can't go out to run right now - even in the evenings. The daytime temperature is over 120 right now and humidity touches 85% some days.
Even at night, the daytime heat absorbed by the concrete radiates into you. No outdoor running until October.
I'm back in the UK this weekend and sooooo looking forward to a couple of runs outside. I am praying for wind and rain.
No, only men run in Dubai.
"We had one Saudi runner, Moukheld Al Otaibi, during the early part of the 2000s who ran sub 13minutes for 5000. "
- gee, I wonder how he accomplished that? In a day and age now where a 12.59 by farah thrashes a good field and is considered a fast time, don't even begin to explain a sub 13 by a Saudi guy as legitimate. Give me a break. That whole era is a blight on athletics.
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Female coach having affair with male runner. Should I report it?
If Daniel's and Pfitz are outdated..then where do I look for modern training plans?
Colin Sahlman runs 1:45 and Nico Young runs 1:47 in the 800m tonight at the Desert Heat Classic