The Running Thread - 2026

[Erika10021]

March Totals: 118 miles
Running: 87 miles
Walking: 31 miles

Feels like February totals fell off a bit (I don't think I even posted them) but things are back to normal (if this is normal!)

 

[RuntheMouse]

March totals:
Running: 110.7 miles
Strength training: 9 sessions
Cross training: 4 days

Had a good month overall including some runs at WDW! Staring to train in earnest for a couple of spring/early summer races. Happy running everyone!

 

[PrincessV]

I follow some ultra runners on Youtube/Instagram who use cooling sleeves/shirts in the heat. Jeff Pelletier has a great video from when he ran Badwater. But I've never tried those sorts of adaptations because those races are usually in dry heat.

I'm wondering if you can find anything online about the Keys 100 race and how people adapt to that.

Yep, I know it would work in dry heat, but with our humidity (which is unimaginably even higher than central FL!), I fear the extra cloth - which would just be soaked from 1/2 a mile on - might not improve conditions. But maybe it wouldn’t be any worse, either.

Reading your question, immediately I thought of the Rise and Run episode(s) where people discuss their strategies for running Keys. I can't remember what I heard where, but I know that most of these runners had specialized equipment like ice bandanas (I bought one of these from Ultimate Direction), hats with pockets for ice, and a shawl type thing to wear over the shoulders and arms. Another strategy that sounds effective to me is using a backpack and freezing water in the bladder.

I already do all that, lol! Ice in a bandanna, I soak my clothes and splash ice water over me every few miles, chuck some ice in my hat - it helps, but I still have to use sunscreen, which offsets the heat mitigation.


ETA: well crud- this is what I was afraid of. If wet UPF50 fabric is only giving me 15UPF protection, it’s not worth bothering - I’d need to wear sunscreen UNDER it, making things even more hot. Boo.

 

[The Expert]

March Totals

Running: 36 miles (took a good 10 days off after Princess and then took it pretty easy)
Walking (with my dog): 34.5 miles
Pilates/Strength: 5 hours

 

[PrincessV]

So I took a long sleeve UV shirt out on a 45-minute test run: 87º, full sun, but only 47% humidity, and…

OOOOH ABSOLUTELY NOT! NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

Like being wrapped in Saran Wrap and left in a sauna. Couldn’t tear the shirt off fast enough once I got into the AC. Sunscreen is nowhere near that bad! There’s a reason I never see other FL runners in long sleeves in summer.

 

[Naomeri]

So I took a long sleeve UV shirt out on a 45-minute test run: 87º, full sun, but only 47% humidity, and…

OOOOH ABSOLUTELY NOT! NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

Like being wrapped in Saran Wrap and left in a sauna. Couldn’t tear the shirt off fast enough once I got into the AC. Sunscreen is nowhere near that bad! There’s a reason I never see other FL runners in long sleeves in summer.

Well, that answers THAT question

 

[PrincessV]

Well, that answers THAT question

DEFINITIVELY!!! But also, I wore it for the PHM and it was perfection for that weather, so it’s still got a place for use… just NOT in summer!