Since we are running around like headless chickens, what's the worst conditions you've ever run in (Page 2)

Worst ever - couple of years ago I bundled up and headed out on a run - temp was around -20C and the wind was brutal (I think the windchill was around -35C).  I was heading out for a long run but due to the weather, cut it short (1 hour).  Unfortunately, I wasn't home so I didn't know the route and the one I chose ended up looping around to have a tailwind for most of the going out.  Didn't seem too bad until I turned around and started back - brrr

I was frozen - even with my cold weather gear, it took at least an hour to get warmed up again to the point that my knees stopped hurting.

Since then, I decided that on occasion, running on the treadmill is a better plan, especially in the cold and/or icy conditions 

Shane

I agree with what Daremo says.  11 years ago I had my coldest run (fortunately a short one) after Christmas - about -30 degrees C.  Then I went to Orlando to run the Disney Marathon in 86 degree F heat.  I didn't have a horrible race but it wasn't prize-winning either!

Being in Michigan I run in all weather - even the negatives, I just make sure to bundle up all my appendages so i don't get frostbite!  I prefer winter running to summer any day.  You have not lived until you have ran in the middle of a blizzard.  So serene.  I love being the first to make foot prints in the snow on a trail!

As far as worst it would have to be last Summer when I ran a few miles after work - it was 95% humidity and 100 * outside - I about died. 

It's a tie for me - I have two.  Once was deer flies........I mistakingly went down into a hollow (following the edge of a field) and was swarmed by deer flies.  They kept getting in my hair and biting, so I grabbed a branch to swat at them while I ran back up a very long, steep hill as fast as I could.  It had to be hilarious to watch, and boy, what a great tempo run that was.

 The second was a training run for a marathon.  I fell at mile 2 of a 20 mile run and cut up both of my hands and knees pretty well.  I decided to keep going because I figured if I could make it that day, the marathon would be a breeze.  I think I got a little loopy there at the end.........talking to myself and whatnot.  

My extremes are extreme but not extremely extreme like some of you extremists. At least I covered my extremities in the cold.

Last Friday was -1F with 16mph winds gusting to 25mph. With the exception of parts of my face, I was actually overdressed and got too warm. Go figure.

Lifetime Fitness Tri in July 2006 was miserable. Something like 95F with high humidity and not a cloud in the sky. It was supposed to be my first OLY but they cut off about 3 miles from the bike and made the run a 5K. The lake was bathwater warm at 85F, the bike wasn't so bad since we were moving but once I hopped off the bike to run the heat hit me like a truck. There's a little out-and-back over a concrete bridge on the run and I swear you could see the energy get sucked out of everyone with the heat radiating off the pavement. I swear I'll never race in weather like that ever again! I'd rather eat my entry fee.

I'll take the bitter cold over the opressive heat any day! 

So far I appear to be in hibernation here, my first winter as a triathlete in a moderately cold climate.  See logs:  almost no training.  BUT!  Hot and humid would be pretty typical for Houston, where I started this mess.  99% humidity much of the summer.   Sweat dripping off the bill of my cap.  What i learned is that at anything above 98 degrees, running slows to a tai-chi-like motion.