Hotter 'n hell...

Blazing heat /Bitter cold: and it's not even close.

 

Unusually hot where I live, too. I'm convinced we're hurtling toward the sun.

 

I lived in Fort Lauderdale for five years, so I figured I knew what "hot" was. Wrong. Then I moved to Dallas, where our first summer there we had something like 69 days in a row of 100+, including 55 in a row. If, by some chance, I'm sentenced to eternal damnation, I'll be prepared simply because I've lived in Dallas.

But good luck to those going through this who aren't used to it.

 

Please. I just flew in from Vegas (and boy, are my arms tired [/rimshot]) and when I left, it was 115 degrees. It was downright cool here in DFW -- less than 100.

And I'm convinced Columbia, S.C., is the hottest place on the face of the earth. I have less trouble with the 105-degree days here than the 92-degree, 93 percent-humidity days I suffered through there.

 

They ended up calling it off, though, right?

 

Dry heat, heat and humidity? It's all hot, any way you slice it. If I ever go to Vegas, it sure as hell isn't going to be during the summer.

 

I can't imagine them calling off the Badwater Ultra. The race bills itself as "The World's Toughest Foot Race," and its website calls it "the most demanding and extreme running race offered anywhere on the planet."

The heat is part of the deal. Also from the website: "this legendary event pits up to 100 of the world's toughest athletes — runners, triathletes, adventure racers and mountaineers — against one another and the elements. Covering 135 miles (217km) non-stop from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney, CA in temperatures up to 130F (55c)..."

Pretty sure they know what they signed up for.

http://www.badwater.com/

 

Umm, did you you not read the part about where the Marathon ends? March or April would likely mean finishing in snow. The whole unique point of that Marathon is how much altitiude and climate change it covers in such a short distance. Only the beginning occurs in searing Death Valley heat, then it gets progressively cooler as they ascend.

 

I did Vegas to Dallas a few years ago. The humidity in the Metroplex made me want to go right back to the desert.