A Passion for Running

Comment by Mike Paus

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

I’ll take 77 any day of the week! Above 85, I get a little worried.

Comment by Another Pam

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

I think those Southerners think we are wimps with the temperatures we complain about!

BUT I bet they couldn’t (wouldn’t WANT to) hack one of our winter runs.
My fav by far!

Comment by Mark

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

Ya, I think perhaps we humans get used to a range of temperatures and it gets harder when we get out of the range. So, maybe for folks in the south, the bottom and top end of their range is higher than ours. I often hear of Albertan’s who move to Vancouver or Victoria and one year later they can’t hack the cold and complain whenever the temperature goes below 20C/70F. My brother is one of those people!

That’s my theory and I’m stickin’ to it!

Comment by Dianna (RCOH)

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

I never, ever ran outside when i was in Tucson…WAY TOO HOT. But 77 degrees sounds fine to me! Depends on the humidity and how blazing the sun is. Once it gets over 80, I get cranky and I run either in the a.m. or after the sun has started to dip down.

Comment by Lesley

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

Try running the Honolulu Marathon!!! Now, that is one hot and humid run! I enjoyed it so much, I’m goin try Maui!!!

Mark, sorry we didn’t hook up last night, but saw Aaron at the Running Room 20th Anniversary Celebration! We had way too much fun! It was very cool seeing a sea of red caps running the entire length of the High Level Bridge! I hope someone got a picture of it ’cause it was a sight!!

Comment by Another Pam

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

HA! I was one of those people Mark.
I lived in Yellowknife for 2 years and when we came back to Southern Ontario I nearly shiveled up and died in the heat of the summer (granted it was a particularily hot and humid summer).

Comment by Jon in Michigan

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

I used to live in North Carolina and they counted the days over 90 every summer. It would be in the 80′s when I got up in the morning and I’d be sweating by the time I got to the car. I come up here to MI and in a few years, I’m whining when the thermometer says anything over 80F. I can live with 77 though. As long as its not humid.

Comment by Susan

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

Before I left Virginia, I would run in the morning when it was 70-75 to avoid the 90 degree weather in the late afternoon. When I go back next month, I’ll need to get used to it all over again. I love these 60 degree mornings in RI.

Comment by Christy

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

I am in CA and 77 degrees F is good running weather for me. anything above 80, I start to take things slow. but on the opposite of heat i think 60 is freezing. Like most have said depends what you are use to.

Comment by Alex

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

I’d love a 77 degree running day right about now! It’s been in the mid 90s here in Austin lately, and it will get warmer before it gets cooler again. But as they say, training in this heat makes it oh so much easier to go fast once it starts to cool down again.

Comment by Kathy

Thursday July 15, 2004 @

I think you already know my feelings on this. My IDEAL running weather is 60? and drizzly.

Seattle has been struck with a few very warm summers (for us) and it sucks to run in.

Good thing I can’t run any more.

HAR!!!

Comment by Karen

Friday July 16, 2004 @

Over the 4th it was right at 100 degrees all weekend here in North Carolina. Of course, you have to add in the intense humidity and I think they determined our heat index to be around 110. So, yeah, I’d take 77 anyday over what we get between July and August in the south.

Comment by Deene

Friday July 16, 2004 @

77f is nice and cool for me. Above 85 is just way to warm for running. Of course in Colorado the weather is so unpredictable we have to just live with 45f one day and 95 two days later.