What time of day do you like to run?

Mandygring
Mandygring Posts: 704 Member
edited July 2016 in Fitness and Exercise
What time of day do you normally like to run? I normally try to in the mornings. It's been hot and humid by the time I normally go that I may need to wake up earlier if I still want to run . Lol
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  • thesupremeforce
    thesupremeforce Posts: 1,206 Member
    I aim for the part of the day with the best weather, so if it's hot, I'm going as early as possible.
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    I am sadly relegated to whenever my husband is home and able to watch the kids (read: when they are agreeable). This usually translates to 6-6:30PM, it can be brutally hot but thankfully we've had a pretty rainy season this year
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    Personally my midweeks are in the evening, up to 12 miles. My weekend runs tend to be in the forenoon.
  • Mandygring
    Mandygring Posts: 704 Member
    Hahahaha that's funny! Better catch that bus! :D
  • TheRootofGroot
    TheRootofGroot Posts: 118 Member
    I'm a bum when it comes to running.
    Just seems awful for hips and knees.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    It's not
  • Ultima_Morpha
    Ultima_Morpha Posts: 892 Member
    During the week I head out as soon as I get my family out the door...0600-0630. On the weekends I sometimes start as early as 0530 so my husband can go when I am done (we have two small children).

    0530 actually seems to be a sweet spot for me. Some of my best times were my earliest runs; cooler and drier for sure too but in Houston it can still be brutal at that time of morning.
  • Tracieisfitastic
    Tracieisfitastic Posts: 104 Member
    Mornings. Between 4:30-6:30
  • SkinnyFatBGone
    SkinnyFatBGone Posts: 59 Member
    amandacanales wrote: »

    0530 actually seems to be a sweet spot for me. Some of my best times were my earliest runs; cooler and drier for sure too but in Houston it can still be brutal at that time of morning.

    Yes! I go out to memorial park around 4:45-5:00am and it's pretty hot. Low 80s.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    When being chased by something; otherwise, screw that noise.
  • loreefabulous
    loreefabulous Posts: 19 Member
    I like running in the morning
  • socalrunner59
    socalrunner59 Posts: 149 Member
    Crack of dawn. I love the still chilled air. The low hum of a world just awakening. The sight of the rising sun that fills me with hope and anticipation for yet another day.
  • pomegranatecloud
    pomegranatecloud Posts: 812 Member
    Evenings.
  • Mandygring
    Mandygring Posts: 704 Member
    I know Houston TX is soooo humid in the summer. When I was there, the humidity felt like I could cut it with a knife. The only place worse that I've experienced was in Mexico.
  • onefortyone
    onefortyone Posts: 531 Member
    Between 9am and 11am, depending on my son's mood and nap schedule that day, but hopefully going to push that earlier as he's transitioning from 2 naps to 1. When it's 80+ out, it seems too hot to take out an infant so the earlier the better.
  • Wolfena
    Wolfena Posts: 1,570 Member
    I like to run early evening or late afternoon - but when it's hot I end up doing it early in the morning before work, which makes me feel rushed and I don't really enjoy it near as much.
  • fattothinmum
    fattothinmum Posts: 218 Member
    edited July 2016
    When I get a sitter, so often evemings although I feel stronger during a run when it's morning and cool.
  • shaylas78
    shaylas78 Posts: 21 Member
    I run at 5am through the weekday and 5:30am on the weekends.
  • mommarnurse
    mommarnurse Posts: 515 Member
    In the Summer time (& I live in Florida) I'm now pretty much used to 7:30 pm. It's not as hot, there's usually some sort of a back breeze off of the afternoon storm that just finished blowing through (every day in the summer here - true story) and my husband is home to be with the kids. Although many times lately, they'll ride their bikes or jog a little with me.

    When it's not summer and they're in school, I'll get back to the 9 AM routine. I am just not ever going to be someone who can get up and going at 5 AM. (Plus my husband goes to work around then so I am at the mercy of him being home or them being home)
  • jddrexler
    jddrexler Posts: 1 Member
    Sunrise....it's coolest at this time, I get to see the sunrise, and I like the way I feel when I head out to work knowing I've already run/biked/swam.
  • RespectTheKitty
    RespectTheKitty Posts: 1,667 Member
    I run on my lunch hour during the week (usually on a... gasp... treadmill). On the weekends, I typically run in the late afternoon or early evening. Luckily the weather has been agreeable to do so. Knock on wood, we've been lucky so far this summer with not having too much heat.
  • newmom_2012
    newmom_2012 Posts: 96 Member
    Evenings. I'm just not a morning person, no matter how hard I try.
  • ScreeField
    ScreeField Posts: 180 Member
    Afternoon
  • Bluepegasus
    Bluepegasus Posts: 333 Member
    I like to run in the evening, always have done, always will. For some reason running in the morning seems so much harder.
  • ivanfawcettgibson
    ivanfawcettgibson Posts: 193 Member
    I prefer a ride to a run. I only like running when it involves sports. I find running incredibly boring.
  • WynterDreaming
    WynterDreaming Posts: 83 Member
    I try it in the morning before 7 or in the evening after 7. I take my dog with my on walks, to get him some much needed exercise and with the heat lately I haven't dared to take him out until I know the sidewalks wouldn't hurt his paws. Walking without a buddy is boring though so.
  • kwtilbury
    kwtilbury Posts: 1,234 Member
    thesupremeforce wrote: »
    I aim for the part of the day with the best weather, so if it's hot, I'm going as early as possible.

    This. In the summer, that usually means before 6 AM, although I belong to a running group that starts at 6 PM. In the winter, I wait until the warmest part of the day (or at least until the temp gets above freezing).
  • Joanna2012B
    Joanna2012B Posts: 1,448 Member
    5AM!!
  • davoiscool
    davoiscool Posts: 125 Member
    Normally straight after work, as I have a lovely lake to run around at my work, so it would be a waste not use it! I'm not a morning person so not in the mornings!

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