NICE!!! And I hear ya - I'm not looking that far out yet, but you bet I'll be stalking every weather app I have a week out from race weekend... despite the fact that, in the end, I'll just bring EVERYTHING anyway lol!
Weather forecasting 3ish weeks out...I'm about 90 miles west of WDW: my "low" the other night was 74. My forecast low Fri (2 days from now)? 48. Welcome to Florida
Me too! We've had this since Aprilish and I for one am tired of it. We will have a cool snap this weekend, but I'm hoping for at least another for marathon weekend!It was 36 degrees this morning. In CALIFORNIA. Where am I??? Although the temps look good to me in FL, I would really, really, reallllllly appreciate it if someone could tell the humidity to drop. A lot. By like at least half. M'kay, thanks.
I've heard plenty of stories about that weekend,snow during the Disney half marathon, that would have been interesting!!This was before I started doing these races so I wasn't there,good thing as being from South Florida I love getting some cool to cold"ish" weather as the constant heat gets annoying,but I've realized once it gets too cold I turn into a wimp.I remember visiting Lake Tahoe with 23 degrees and I wanted to get something to eat from a supermarket about 4 blocks away,once I got about a block into my walk over I turned back and decided to get something at the hotel.I think I did visit Disney the weekend before the marathon in 2010 and I think it was still like 30 degrees,the cold was nonstop the winters of 2010 and 2011.If it's cold again for marathon weekend I gotta go and buy me some calf sleeves,mostly to help keep my lower body warm.
Yep! That's why I'm wishing for a cool snap and not a cold one.
I felt the same after I had to take off and cut down a lot over the last month from piriformis syndrome (glute muscle) and switched to short run/walks and then the last 2 days cut out some walk breaks and yes at first it felt like I was the Tinman but after getting more runs in I have felt better. I am not injury free unfortunately so have to be careful like you to not make it worse, but I bet after you get a few more runs in you'll feel better about your runs, your muscles will remember, just hang in there! Almost there! Merchandise would be nice to see!
Of course, I did bring some extra layers, soooo...Eh, Disney will be giving you 6 shirts anyway. You're good.
I don't ave any magical advice, but if it helps, I understand that feeling of waiting and wondering when the pain will reappear. Due to some physical things that simply can't be "fixed", ITBS will always be a nagging issue for me. I can go months without it doing more than making a little pain-free tightness, then BAM - pain out of nowhere. It tempers my excitement pretty often, the not knowing. What keeps me positive and moving forward is reminding myself that I've run many more miles without ITBS nailing me than I have limped through with that pain. Telling myself "today has every opportunity to be a pain-free day!" seems to help
I'm soooo over it, lol! What happened to highs in the 70s and lows in the 60s? THAT's what we suffer through summers for, right?!!
I retell this story all the time, because that weekend seriously scarred me for life, lol! I wasn't running, but I was at WDW that 2010 marathon weekend and happened to be up and out early the morning of the half... I'll never forget getting into my car at the resort and trying to make sense of the little blobby, crystal-y things pelting down on my windshield... and the 20+ year northerner in me finally pulling it out of memory, "OMG, it's SNOWING!!!!!" Then getting to the TTC and seeing some half finishers on the monorail; they literally looked blue-toned, they were so devoid of color, and shivering harder than I thought was humanly possible. I couldn't even imagine being in their shoes. Since then, I've amassed a huge collection of potential throwaway race clothes, plus a lifetime supply of mylar blankets, just in case, lol!
