Running in heat and intense humidity: How to do it safely. Your marathon training schedule doesn't halt for extreme heat, so when the mercury rises runners are often left wondering: to run or not to run?
Training in extreme heat can be dangerous if you don't take the proper precautions - and sometimes even when you do. I recently suffered a fairly serious bout of heat exhaustion and dehydration (more on that in a future post) and and it seemed like a good time to dig up some great heat tips I got last year from ultrarunner Scott Jurek and to share some new tips I got recently from Runner's World shoes and geart editor Jeff Dengate, who has run 17 marathons. ULTRARUNNER & BADWATER CHAMP SCOTT JUREK'S TIPS FOR RUNNING IN HEAT I chatted with Dengate recently when he'd just finished a run in 92-degree heat - which is today's forecast! His advice for running safe in the hot sun includes, "get your butt up early," "eat salty things," and "take a sports drink.
" Running Quotes - Running Quotes from John Bingham. Through his articles and best-selling books about running, John "the Penguin" Bingham has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to run for fun, fitness, and self-affirmation.
Here are some running quotes from running writer and speaker John Bingham: "The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. " "It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. Welcome to natural running. Running Injury Info.