Winter Running

"Mike Tennent" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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God, I hate winter running here in south Georgia.

Every day for the last 10 days, it's been the same thing - mid to
upper 70's, sunny, light breeze. By evening it's only cooled down to
about 70.

It's been tough, I tell you...

Mike Tennent
"IronPenguin"

Yeah, but you are still on south Georgia! (This from a native of Rome, GA)

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don't take this personally mike. but FU mike. go ahead an rub it in.
I hate this [censored]. Freezing ran last night in nyc. s-u-c-k-s. the
worse. winter sucks. dark early, dank, wet, cold, there is no snow
to make it at least look nice.....it's just f'ed up from every angle.

Then move! Seriously, if you do not like where you live, MOVE!

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i ran my route monday night at 9pm. i did not see a single
runner....(this is unusual). that's when you say, "what the F am i
doing out here"? seeing at least _one_ person at least allows you to
say, "i'm out here....because...he or she is out here". minus that
inspiration...the question of your sanity if fair grounds and open for
debate.

and the clothes i must have had about 10 pounds at least of [censored] on
(gloves, caps, jackets, etc....)...this ain't running. Upper 70's?
SINGLET & SHORTS!!!!! running with loose hands, not clinched fist
every step of the way as you do when it's damn cold. winter running
means shorter movements and strides due to the
clothing/weather/footing.... I'm down 1/3 in my weekly mileage.

i've always found it odd how the "feeder states" producing many of
america's top distance runner's...are snow/cold places...i've seen the
stats...forgot where. places like michigan & colorado produce more
top runners year in year out (at the highschool and collegiate level)
than places in the South. Tennesse has fabulous mountains, I would
imagine in many parts of Texas and Arizona and Florida you can have
year round distance training in reasonable ideal conditions. UT
(Austin) and U.Tenn. and U.Ga, they just don't produce like the
programs in Colorado, Michigan....

I would not look at the college programs since athletes come from other
parts of the country:

Torres brothers left Illinois to go to CU
Webb went from VA to U of Michigan
Guys from all over go to Stanford

I suspect that the colder weather actually benefits distance running.
Running in Georgia (for instance) is nasty for much of the year (nice in
parts of GA as Mike has pointed out). Also, some places have a history of
distance running and that tends to feed onto itself.

College programs also tend to focus on specifics:

CU has nothing in terms of sprinters or field athletes.
Stanford: ditto
Florida and Tennessee have been havens for sprinters for a while now.