PT always gets a lot worse before it gets better, at least for me. Hope things start to turn around soon for you!
ATTQOTD: Great! Been running at 4-5a so I'm getting my money's worth on my Noxgear. Also burning through my electrolyte mix, but better than being dehydrated.
My long runs are 6 miles, which is perfect: I start at sunrise and it’s just starting to get too hot at the point I’m done. Then I spend the rest of the weekend indoors, with all the curtains closed to block heat coming from the 1979 windows. It’s fabulous!
I am curious where about the middle east you are? My family is from Lebanon (I live in Michigan) but my parents often speak of the mild and lovely summers back home. Sounds like it's not the case this year!
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Thanks! OK in that context... dew point here is apparently 24-25˚ which I guess would translate to 75-77˚F... So with temperatures of 75-90˚F that would be a T+D of 150-165 I guess?
Curious about the dew points in Las Vegas... 80s F for the temperature and a 40 F dew point = not that bad! Or 80s F and a 70 F dew point = pure misery!
I’m in Dubai, and have lived in Doha & Kurdistan over the past years too.
Yes it was a very dry heat as they say.... I just looked at the history on Weather Underground for one of the days I was there as an example. I do suppose at the overnight low for that day, at 5AM, the temp was 87 and the dew point was 45... so not terrible when you look at it as a T+D of 135, but I wasn't motivated to get up at 4AM to get out and run in Las Vegas at 5AM to run in almost 90 degree heat for that hour of time. I have no idea whether it is even safe to run at that hour on the streets there. By the time you got to even 9AM it was about 100 degrees and, yeah, I'm just doing the treadmill at that point. 100 degrees is 100 degrees to me no matter how low the dew point, I'd be worried about becoming dehydrated. Even the wind was hot. I have no idea how people tolerate that kind of heat day after day.Curious about the dew points in Las Vegas... 80s F for the temperature and a 40 F dew point = not that bad! Or 80s F and a 70 F dew point = pure misery!
I was thinking about that while I'm vacationing in Banff. They have been getting unseasonably hot weather in the mid-80s F...but the new point is mid-40s F (in some cases), so that still comes out to a T+D < 140, which would be much better than what I'd be getting back home in the DC area! (For the record, I'm only hiking in Banff, not running.)
How hot/humid was it during your run and what will temps look like for your goal race? If its very hot during your runs now, but race day it will be 40, then things could work out. I would suggest to continue doing various types of speed work each week. I am also assuming your goal race is a marathon and you are aiming for a 9 min/mile pace. If thats true, I think you are getting close, but a 9 min/mile should be somewhat comfortable pace in the early miles to be able to string 26 of them together. I forget which site has the information, but there are resources online that you can put in your goal race distance and time. It will give you other common race distances like 5k, 10k, 10 miler, 1/2 marathon, and will tell you a pace / time you should be able to run those races at that would require the same type of fitness to run the full at your goal time. It's not a perfect science but it could give you some guidance.
I constantly neglect to note the dew point, but the temperature was 78° with 88% humidity. The race (which is a marathon) is in Fort Lauderdale. If the temperature is the same as this past year, it will be in the mid 60’s.
I always preferred Sports, because it was first on/first off the bus. Each resort may have separate buses on the way to the races (and maybe first thing in the morning for parks), but otherwise, Sports gets you off the bus faster.
DH registered this morning!
