Would you rather run in extreme hot or extreme cold?

Tie.

Extreme heat makes my heart rate skyrocket and I get dizzy so have to take many more breaks.

Extreme cold my hands go numb/white/blue and my water freezes. And if there's any ice on the ground I go down.

hot, I personally would rather suffer than be uncomfortable, which is how i feel with layers on in the cold

Hot for me. Some of my favorite workouts are swimming outside at the lake or at the local pool with the sun shining down on me. I can hop out of the pool, throw on some shorts and take off for a run on the trail.

I hate this cold and wind. It is making me a little depressed. I don't think I can take another 2 months of this. I wear a face mask just to take the dog out and I'm still cold. I can't even get my coat on fast enough before the dog piddles on the patio. Now I have frozen puddles all over my back patio.

Thanks for bringing this up because I've been wanting somewhere to fuss about the cold all day long .

define "extreme".

running in 0F is pretty easy.  100F isn't all that tough, provided it's dry and not under the mid-day sun.

but really- that's what treadmills are for.

To those that posted that they choose to not run in extreme cold because: "I hate being cold".....I'd respond with "who doesn't?"....To those who don't like all the layering required in order to NOT be cold, I'm with you there, it's a PITA and adds time to the pre and post run...

In a different thread today I posted that I ran in -3 degrees and -15 windchill and it was one of the best runs of the season...I should have said year because it truly was almost perfect..

I'm not trying to sway anyone who said they'd rather run in extreme heat, I'm just saying to those who don't like running in the extreme cold BECAUSE they're cold, that's the problem....Your gear...

-14 with -35 windchill this morning. As long as I could keep out of the wind wasn't too bad. Don't think I could run in 100 degree weather.

heat. i'll take 100 degrees with humidity in the sun over anything below 55 any day.

i really don't like cold weather.

I laugh because this is the argument I used to have with my little brother all time time (would you rather be too cold or too hot).  I couldn't get him to understand the error in his logic!

He said if it's cold, just add layers and it's all good.  But if it's hot, taking layers off DOESN'T fix it.  Not fair!  Can't say that it's ONLY cold enough that a few layers fix it bit so hot that taking ALL your layers off doesn't fix it!

I mean, if it's was -15 degrees and you needed to run in a polar parka and still not be warm?  How fun is that?

As for me, I run in 115 and can survive.  That's about as hot as it get's within reason.  How cold is a reasonable cold?  Zero degrees?  I have ran in the teens/20's, and been FAR more uncomfortable than the 115.  Thing with heat, you can slow down and cope - even if you had to walk.  With cold, slowing down just makes you freeze more!

Depends.

I would rather train in the cold, just add layers. But I would rather race in the heat. I train during during the middle of the day so I would like to think that gives me something of an advantage. I need all the help I can get.