Time to put on a Darth Vader costume and run a mile

Jul 15, 2019
4:19:21pm

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A 6:36 Mile in Death Valley While Dressed as Darth Vader | Runner's World

From the sure-why-not file comes word of another successful year for the Darth Valley Challenge, a costumed heat-running adventure that's the brainchild of Colorado resident Jonathan Rice.

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a20846178/a-6-36-mile-in-death-valley-while-dressed-as-darth-vader/

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The hottest (temp) you've ever been. Bonus points for heat stroke I suppose

Mayor of Cougartown

7/15/19 1:04pm

IDK about temp but Washington DC in August is about as miserable as I've ever

Dillinger

7/15/19 1:06pm

121 plus high humidity and virtually no wind. Coast of Saudi Arabia

Indy Coug

7/15/19 1:07pm

I have felt nothing like the heat and humidity on the Arabian peninsula

Wingnut

7/15/19 1:11pm

July and August are just brutal brutal. Especially since the prevailing winds tend to die down that time of year.

Indy Coug

7/15/19 1:13pm

My second day in Quatar it was 98 Degrees with 90% Humidity..... at 8:00 AM

Wingnut

7/15/19 1:14pm

We lived about ten miles n of Dhahran. Inside the house

Florwood

7/15/19 1:14pm

We were fortunate to have very effective air conditioning. Else, we would have moved away a long time before that.

Indy Coug

7/15/19 1:15pm

Why would anyone live there?

TailgateU

7/15/19 1:21pm

$$$$

Indy Coug

7/15/19 1:22pm

It's really nice weather seven months of the year and you send your wife & kids

Zooropa

7/15/19 1:39pm

No wonder people in that part of the world always seem to be in a bad mood

RC Vikings

7/15/19 2:29pm

How appropriate, because the devil runs that country

MatthiasG

7/15/19 9:06pm

Heat stroke - fixing my roof in San Antonio in early August one day after

StarMan

7/15/19 1:09pm

Heat exhaustion?

Grit for Brains

7/15/19 1:13pm

I was at that game too. Was a rough one

Mayor of Cougartown

7/15/19 1:13pm

We brought a spray bottle with us. Was a life saver.

Florwood

7/15/19 1:15pm

I have done that for hot day/afternoon games ever since.

StarMan

7/15/19 1:16pm

Fun game though. OTOH, students at TAMU sometimes bring frozen gallons of water

TailgateU

7/15/19 1:24pm

Probably not quite as hot as that day was, but TAMU would certainly be hot

StarMan

7/15/19 1:50pm

Don't know the temperature but it was the only time I had heat

BYU71

7/15/19 1:11pm

Thailand - temp around 100 plus 98% humidity

Hang10

7/15/19 1:15pm

Portland State, LES, 2017.

Jimo Dashen

7/15/19 1:18pm

That day was so hot. Had to leave at halftime.

scootsy

7/15/19 1:29pm

what's funny is I remember everyone (myself included) thinking since it would be

Mayor of Cougartown

7/15/19 1:31pm

I remember thinking the offense would eventually click and make it all worth it.

StalwartBraveTrue

7/15/19 3:50pm

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LifelongAP

7/16/19 1:05pm

118 tracting in Northern California.

Superman21

7/15/19 1:22pm

Pretty hot the two weeks I temped with Thunder Down Under.

Nakedbootleg

7/15/19 1:24pm

RE: Pretty hot the two weeks I temped with Thunder Down Under.

IdahoCoug

7/15/19 1:31pm

board name check out

NacoCoug

7/15/19 1:35pm

128 - Lake Havasu City, AZ

Druick

7/15/19 1:25pm

Not the hottest, but my SIL had an outdoor wedding in southern AZ in June. It

TailgateU

7/15/19 1:26pm

Dense Jungle in Panama....awful....and we had to wear a lot of clothes to boot

mokelembembe

7/15/19 1:27pm

121 degrees, Indio, CA -Lived there. Dropped to 115 the next day, went golfing

Memmo

7/15/19 1:28pm

Not sure of temp, but probably spending a few hours inside

JuicyJam

7/15/19 1:30pm

Thermometer showed 130 in the shade one time traveling through Kuwait

triumph

7/15/19 1:32pm

125 playing baseball in Lousisiana.

AlphaCoug

7/15/19 1:40pm

205, Athletic club sauna, some dude poured a bowl of water on the lava rocks.

whirl

7/15/19 1:50pm

Amateur. The professional sauna competitors start at 230 deg F and add water every 30 seconds.

cheezedawg

7/15/19 2:11pm

At least he didn’t pee on them and used water instead

Coug98

7/15/19 7:52pm

Jalalabad, Afghanistan. 120+ and 80% humidity.

Frank Castiglione

7/15/19 1:59pm

118 Phoenix, but I would say

STL

7/15/19 2:10pm

118 Las Vegas moving furniture into home

spugeddy24

7/15/19 2:32pm

125 (Qatar) outside probably 160 degrees inside. Our planes baked in the sun

Fly'n Cougar

7/15/19 2:38pm

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nbruin

7/15/19 3:24pm

119 in Dahran Saudi Arabia

PickleButton

7/15/19 5:47pm

Biked 24 miles in 115 in Phoenix one day.

TheismanHill1911

7/15/19 2:48pm

Did it ever occur to you that you didn't have to do that?

flavordave

7/15/19 2:49pm

120 degrees PHX, close second 110 degrees Moab in August scout camp....

BYU Grounds

7/15/19 3:01pm

surprised no one said Disneyworld in the summer. The poor characters

Mayor of Cougartown

7/15/19 3:02pm

40 C - Cuiaba, Brazil (high humidity) it was brutal.

Romex

7/15/19 3:12pm

This one time at the Orem Fitness Center the thermostat in the stream room had

UberDeek

7/15/19 3:14pm

Alright, that's a lame joke. You guys all know that

UberDeek

7/15/19 3:15pm

When I saw Jennifer Garner in person

Epileptic Beagle

7/15/19 3:15pm

Seven summers in Houston.

CougarThug

7/15/19 3:17pm

I don't know the temps, well over 100, but I've had a couple really bad days

byujag

7/15/19 3:23pm

127 death valley

nbruin

7/15/19 3:25pm

Time to put on a Darth Vader costume and run a mile

cheezedawg

7/15/19 4:19pm

Temp wise is Arizona, they closed the airport I think it was 120

USMCdad

7/15/19 3:28pm

Playing golf in Las Vegas at 127.

Archaea

7/15/19 6:08pm

and running in Lake Havasu City at 130

Archaea

7/15/19 6:09pm

Lake Havasu has only hit 128.

Druick

7/15/19 8:40pm

The highest temperature ever recorded in Vegas is 117°. Sounds legit.

TCuz

7/15/19 6:10pm

Those are at certain locations. There are other readings, which may be

Archaea

7/15/19 6:16pm

They say the hottest place in Phoenix is the Costco parking lot.

Conan

7/15/19 11:12pm

Yeah he’s off on both... and the Havasu one was in 94 when it hit a record for

Druick

7/15/19 8:42pm

On a hot day, it's a good 120 between the two paper machines

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