Ranking of worst conditions for running

Underwater definitely pretty bad for me.

Effillo wrote:

Underwater definitely pretty bad for me.

Yeah but that's how Mo and Galen train.

1. Thunder and lightening - having run in a storm near a golf course, frightening.

2. Ice. Someone from the running club here fractured their skull falling on the ice.

3. Tornado.

track chick wrote:

1. Thunder and lightening - having run in a storm near a golf course, frightening.

2. Ice. Someone from the running club here fractured their skull falling on the ice.

3. Tornado.

You must be from Oklahoma or some neighboring state.

track chick wrote:

1. Thunder and lightening - having run in a storm near a golf course, frightening.

I'd keep running. I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite awhile.

Move high wind way up to #4, ahead of snow. Would you rather run in 60 degrees, dry, and 40 mph winds, or 30 degrees, sunny, and calm? Or even 30, calm, and light snow?

Also air pollution has never been an issue that's even occurred to me. Where are you running, Beijing?

Aside from the obvious with air pollution, high humidity is awful. Just awful. Higher altitidue is tough but coming from an area with high rates of humidity in the summer, the air quality is wayyy less than ideal. I'd take the higher altitude with lack of humidity. I ran in the Southeast last summer, I went out at 7am and it was like I had a blanket over my head and smoked a pack of marlboro's the night before.

reer wrote:

Move high wind way up to #4, ahead of snow. Would you rather run in 60 degrees, dry, and 40 mph winds, or 30 degrees, sunny, and calm? Or even 30, calm, and light snow?

Also air pollution has never been an issue that's even occurred to me. Where are you running, Beijing?

Ever experienced wildfires in the West? You're probably from some sort of Eastern state where people have good land management skills.

Hellish dewpoints. Wow. Just wow.

Turd Monster wrote:

Hellish dewpoints. Wow. Just wow.

And what about hellish dewpoints? We can all agree that 77 degree dewpoints in swampy Southern states aren't pleasant but still kind of doable for maybe half an hour. But running in heavy wildfire smoke is impossible even for 5 minutes.

Never considered pollution.

The only one that is bad for me IN ISOLATION is heavy wind. Just incredibly unpleasant, hard to guage effort, chapped lips, etc.

Ice, of course, sounds like a complete dealbreaker, although I think I have seen little sole attachments that allow us to run on it.

I like cold, and I like(?) rain. Cold rain, otoh, really sucks.

Humidity is part of life down here; don’t even notice it anymore.

theJeff wrote:

Never considered pollution.

The only one that is bad for me IN ISOLATION is heavy wind. Just incredibly unpleasant, hard to guage effort, chapped lips, etc.

Ice, of course, sounds like a complete dealbreaker, although I think I have seen little sole attachments that allow us to run on it.

I like cold, and I like(?) rain. Cold rain, otoh, really sucks.

Humidity is part of life down here; don’t even notice it anymore.

Which state / city are you in?

Tough Running wrote:

Ever experienced wildfires in the West? You're probably from some sort of Eastern state where people have good land management skills.

Absolutely from the east. The wildfire thing just seems too silly and obvious to even rank.

The worst conditions i have ever experienced was 32 degrees and pouring rain, 12 mile run and frozen to the bone.

Have run in -31 degrees on the cold end and 104 humid degrees in Wash. DC in the summer, but the 12 mile run in the cold rain topped them all.

frostly wrote:

The worst conditions i have ever experienced was 32 degrees and pouring rain, 12 mile run and frozen to the bone.

Freezing rain is the worst. No, I've not run in smoke. But I'd take 90% humidity at 90F over icy rain, any day. One slows you down a lot, the other is just pain.

Patchy ice - just enough to slow you down, but not enough to warrant extra traction.

The worst would probably have to be a landmine field. Just my opinion tho.

Wait, wait wait. Softball-sized hail has to be number 1.

Gravy wrote:

Wait, wait wait. Softball-sized hail has to be number 1.

lol u right

To above poster: I live in the Southeast.

I'd add ice storm and rain with the temperature is in the 30s to near the top of the list:

1. Air pollution*

2. Ice storm

3. Hard rain with the temperature in the 30s

4. High Humidity

5. High temperatures (Can still sweat if it's dry. 85 degrees with low humidity isn't all that bad.)

6. Snow (Slippery and tricky, but can be done)

7. Rain

8. High wind (Not that bad, just feels like a weird kind of resistance training; wind chill can be cold, but if you wear gloves and cover parts of your face, you should be fine.)

9. Sub freezing temperatures

* I'm just assuming. I've never experienced bad air pollution.