Summer running got you down? I’ve got the perfect way to stay cool this summer while getting your miles in. While beer runs are all the rage, and hey there is nothing wrong with them, they may not be practical for day time running. Enter the Iced Tea Run. This may be the answer to your summer heat and humidity problems.
How to host an iced tea run
Summer heat and humidity are not my friend. I’ve really been struggling to get my regular mileage in the past few weeks. Recently, on a particularly hot DC day, we devised a plan to get our mid week miles in and stay cool. We mapped out a route that would have us hit a coffee shop at about every mile for each of our 3 miles planned for that day. That way we could cool off with iced tea or lemonade about every 10 minutes. It’s also nice to have some air conditioning and access to a bathroom.
Once you figure out how many miles you have on your schedule, simply plan out your route adding in a few stops along the way. Coffee shops are my favorite places to stop but a bagel shop or even a fast food place will do.
With temps in the high 80’s at the start, we picked a perfect day for this fun tradition. We headed out on our adventure and quest to stay cool with our first stop after one mile at Café Kindred for an iced tea lemonade combination.
We headed back out to kick some asphalt on our way to our second stop at Panera Bread. Knowing that we only had about a mile to go before we could cool off again gave us the extra momentum we needed. Panera has a huge selection of iced tea drinks.
With one more stop to go, and temps heating up, we set out to our third and final stop. Northside Social is one of our regular post run hangouts and perfect place to end up.
Who needs beer runs when you can have iced tea runs? For me summertime, is the perfect time for less structured and more fun runs. Organizing an iced tea run on a hot day is my ideal way to make it through the summer heat and humidity. You may even make some new friends along the way.
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This is such a great idea and a nice way to deal with super hot and humid days!
It really helped make the miles much more bearable for sure
Definitely sounds like a fun idea! It would be a bit of a challenge here, not sure how I’d route that (most of our preferred running routes are rail trails, so no shops along the way).
One group has been doing ice cream run every other week. So that could be your next idea. 🙂
Great idea, Deborah!
Well I would love to check out the ice cream run! Have you done it? Tomorrow is our annual 7-11 day run for free slurpees
Ice tea and running just sounds like the perfect combo IMO. I would put it in my camelback! 🙂
that also works! 🙂
I’m totally going to have to plan one of these out! I love running and iced tea so this is perfect.
You will love it-prefect for this crazy heat
Love this idea! I would have to opt for the sugar-free iced tea, but this sounds like a fun idea to do with friends.
Yes all of the places we stopped had lots of choices of iced teas. I am a sugar free iced tea girl as well. I did add a splash of lemonade to one of mine though 🙂
What a fun idea! A great way to stay cool and hydrated!
It sure helped!
This is such fun idea. This would definitely motivate me to run if I knew I was getting iced tea along the way. Thanks for the tips
It sure motivated me!
Turning a quick run into a morning outing, one beverage at a time! LOL Glad you ladies had fun!
You know it!
Oh this sounds and looks like so much fun! It’s hot and humid here too – I think it’s time for a ice tea run in Nashville!
You and your friends will love it!
This is such a fun and refreshing idea!
It sure was a life saver in this heat!
This is such a great idea! In my area, we’d have to do a “wagon wheel” shaped route and keep looping back downtown, but it would still be a fun adventure.
That’s ok it would be fun! Hope you all have a chance to try it sometime
How fun and refreshing! I’ve never thought about doing this but love the idea.
It is so much fun ad really helps keep you cool
Sounds like a fun way to get the miles in!
I am all about just getting it done in the summer time. Iced tea helps!
Great idea to defeat the heat!
To finish in a decent way my workouts I have planned a route with some fountains to refresh this old body!
That helps too! it’s been so hot we have to do whatever we can to stay cool
What a fun idea! And it would definitely motivate me to run faster between stops so I could get to the next coffee shop faster 🙂
That is exactly the idea!
Stop it! That’s flat out genius!
I wonder if I could make this happen with ice cream shops.
Well that sounds like a great plan! go for it
ICed tea > beer any day for me. I think I might even be team lemonade, but either would work
A super fun way to stay cool!