How Much Should Warm Weather Impact Your Running Times? Good runners are religious about their sport, and like any true believers, we’re wracked with periodical spats of guilt. When you don’t do your best (or just as bad, when it looks like you’re not doing your best), there is a compulsion to explain a slower time or justify a shorter distance: “Strava excuses,” they’re called. As I’ve laced my running sneaks and persisted, Charlie Brown-like, through the last hot days of a yet another tremendously hot summer (June 2024 was the hottest June ever, and July was one of the hottest months in recorded history), it’s once again become clear to me there is a crucial difference between running with effort and running with expectations. - Tanner Garrity |