Quote Originally Posted by skhill View Post
Emily, if I moved to Belize, I'd probably be an ex-runner soon. I'm in awe of how you're dealing with heat and humidity!
Thanks skhill! I'm from North Carolina, so it wasn't a big change when we first moved here in August. And I didn't deal with the heat/humidity combo well at all at first. My first runs here were miserable, 1-2 miles, having to say a mantra in my head just to survive them. It is only as it became cooler in the mornings that I was able to up my mileage and started feeling much better on runs. But this week we had a mini-heat wave (for December, anyway!) that really wiped me out. The problem is that the day's high is often reached by 7 to 8 am as the sun rises SO early. It's actually cooler in the afternoon (just the opposite from an N.C. pattern), but I much prefer to get my runs over with in the morning. I am much too likely to find excuses to skip a run if I wait until afternoon.

Supposedly it's going to get a little cooler now so hopefully next week should be better, but we'll see as springtime comes if I can maintain running at all. At some point it may just become impossible. In NC I never ran outside during the summer, only on the treadmill, but I could ride my bike just fine in the summer. Don't have the treadmill option here.