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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Having been in the D.C. area for a few days, I had the chance to do a couple of runs in some very sweltering weather….first on Saturday, shortly after noon (yeah, yeah I know, bad idea but had no choice due to meetings) and then Sunday morning, starting at about 7.  I did about 12 miles and was totally, absolutely and completely drenched.  I cursed my choice of "longer" running shorts as they were just sticking to my legs, but glad I brought a singlet instead of my usual sleeveless tops…. Being from the SF Bay Area, yeah, it can get warm, but hardly ever is it so humid…yikes!  So, I herewith offer my sympathies to all those that run in these conditions (and I know it’s not limited to just the East Coast…)  I’ll take California weather any day! Mike C

Don’t forget us sweating it out in the Midwest, specifically Chicago!  I was in Utah last weekend and the lack of humidity in the SW never fails to amaze me.   Stacy D. How can it be 100% humidity and not be raining?????

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Yeah, thanks for the sympathies! I hate humidity. It seems to suck the oxygen right out of the air. — David (in Hamilton, Ont) "You can’t burn out if you’ve never caught fire." http://www.angelfire.com/nc/swstudio/racing.html –

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Having been in the D.C. area for a few days, I had the chance to do a couple of runs in some very sweltering weather….first on Saturday, shortly after noon (yeah, yeah I know, bad idea but had no choice due to meetings) and then Sunday morning, starting at about 7.  I did about 12 miles and was totally, absolutely and completely drenched.  I cursed my choice of "longer" running shorts as they were just sticking to my legs, but glad I brought a singlet instead of my usual sleeveless tops…. Being from the SF Bay Area, yeah, it can get warm, but hardly ever is it so humid…yikes!  So, I herewith offer my sympathies to all those that run in these conditions (and I know it’s not limited to just the East Coast…)  I’ll take California weather any day! Mike C

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 Mike, The East Coast up in the New Jersey area isn’t really a bad place to run year-around. It’s cooler than D.C. and warmer than Boston. Weather is above freezing most of the year. Very few days above 90 F. May be a month or so of high humidity, i.e. August, but you get used to that, and it usually breaks in time to give glorious September thru November running weather. Much better than the South. John Schwebel

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Hey Mike, You should have come further south down here to Norfolk/Va. Beach. We’ll be doing the Rock n Roll Half during the holiday weekend in September. The humidity was only about 70% when the rain started coming through today and its only in the early 90’s here and this week. I went out at 12:30, left the car at home and trotted down to the gym, did an hour or so there, then some machines, then trotted on back home with energy to spare. Victoria

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Having been in the D.C. area for a few days, I had the chance to do a couple of runs in some very sweltering weather….first on Saturday, shortly after noon (yeah, yeah I know, bad idea but had no choice due to meetings) and then Sunday morning, starting at about 7.  I did about 12 miles and was totally, absolutely and completely drenched.  I cursed my choice of "longer" running shorts as they were just sticking to my legs, but glad I brought a singlet instead of my usual sleeveless tops…. Being from the SF Bay Area, yeah, it can get warm, but hardly ever is it so humid…yikes!  So, I herewith offer my sympathies to all those that run in these conditions (and I know it’s not limited to just the East Coast…)  I’ll take California weather any day! Mike C

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Having been in the D.C. area for a few days, I had the chance to do a couple of runs in some very sweltering weather….first on Saturday, shortly after noon (yeah, yeah I know, bad idea but had no choice due to meetings) and then Sunday morning, starting at about 7.  I did about 12 miles and was totally, absolutely and completely drenched.  I cursed my choice of "longer" running shorts as they were just sticking to my legs, but glad I brought a singlet instead of my usual sleeveless tops…. Being from the SF Bay Area, yeah, it can get warm, but hardly ever is it so humid…yikes!  So, I herewith offer my sympathies to all those that run in these conditions (and I know it’s not limited to just the East Coast…)  I’ll take California weather any day! Mike C

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