For those of you that live in hot/humid areas of the world, how are you adjusting training paces for the heat and humidity?
For example, I live on the coast in the SE US - this morning, I was to do 12x4 minutes at 70.3 pace, with 1 minute jog. The temperature was 78 degrees at 6am and humidity 98%. What I did was 5 efforts at my actual (cool weather pace) and then proceeded to sit down, quit the workout, then jog home. In looking at calculators, if my efforts were supposed to be at 6:45 pace, I could adjust to around 7:05 pace in that kind of weather. What I'm wondering is for those that have adjusted paces down to 7:05, are you still able to race at 6:45 pace when going to a more dry climate? What are you doing to ensure you're able to hit your goal pace?
I'm racing in Ohio in about 5 weeks which is significantly cooler and less humid, but I'm concerned that if I'm slowing my efforts down I won't be able to bring them back up on race day.
For example, I live on the coast in the SE US - this morning, I was to do 12x4 minutes at 70.3 pace, with 1 minute jog. The temperature was 78 degrees at 6am and humidity 98%. What I did was 5 efforts at my actual (cool weather pace) and then proceeded to sit down, quit the workout, then jog home. In looking at calculators, if my efforts were supposed to be at 6:45 pace, I could adjust to around 7:05 pace in that kind of weather. What I'm wondering is for those that have adjusted paces down to 7:05, are you still able to race at 6:45 pace when going to a more dry climate? What are you doing to ensure you're able to hit your goal pace?
I'm racing in Ohio in about 5 weeks which is significantly cooler and less humid, but I'm concerned that if I'm slowing my efforts down I won't be able to bring them back up on race day.