Are you decreasing the distance, while maintaining usual tempo, or the other way around?
I personally rather decrease the speed to keep my usual distance. Pack a camel back and keep on trucking.
Can’t wait for fall.
Pretty miserably! Doing my usual distance and keeping my pace as much as possible, but I’ve definitely slowed down by 10-20 seconds/mile. I’m trying to maintain as well as possible because I have a marathon in October.
The worst part is, that I can’t even convince myself to do some intervals training. I just can’t do sprints in this weather. And I feel that this is really taking a toll at my tempo.
I run shorter distances and try to increase my pace (within reason) so I am not out there as long
Definitely slows me down, I opt for shorter runs during the day or night runs.
Night runs sound really cool, I will have to try it myself one day. But I’m running in my local forest/plains, with no lights. I tried it few times in winter with headlamp, but I just can’t enjoy the run, when I’m not seeing my surroundings.
Oh yeah, I live in the city near a track, so if I run nights it’s under illumination. I never enjoyed running with a head lamp really.
I actually do this a lot in winter. You have to find a lamp that works for you (brightness, the feel on your head), and I’d recommend running like this only on routes you already know well.
Naturally the pace will be slower than in the daylight, unless you have no self-preservation instinct, but it’s a different kind of magic when the world shrinks to just you and the small bubble of light in front of you.
Last part sound pretty good, might give it another try.
I love that description :)
I live far enough north that my mornings have still been relatively cool. So I’ve been prioritizing running early. My afternoons and evenings have been pretty uncomfortable. So we’ve had to skip some of our daily evening dog walks.
Run way earlier.
First thing I do is run right when the sun goes down. It’s cooler, less people driving around in the neighborhood, and I don’t have to put on sunscreen.
Then if it’s still hot, I run slower. Distance means more to me than speed.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m doing right now. Can’t say it isn’t working, but I was wondering what are other people’s tactics.
You get heat, we just get 80km/h winds & rain. This weekend’s a right-off.
My speed definitely drops by a lot in the summer. Fall is amazing because I always feel like I have superpowers, the same effort gets me so much more speed!
On the worst days I’ve been wearing a vest running vest which I keep in the freezer and fill with handfuls of ice, but my personal circumstances force me to run in the heat of day so this may not be as needed if you just run at night.
Similar distances and paces, higher heart rate and suffering
Sweat and blood
