#485 – Heat, Humidity, Dew Point -- Best Training Practices

If you don’t like hair cut stories, skip to 10 minute mark. After that it’s all about how to handle the heat, humidity and dew point. How you should train in it, when you should not train in it. We look at how pace, RPE, and recovery are effected by heat and especially Dew Point. We discuss what is too hard in heat and how best to prepare for training in heat and hot races. Can you tame your ego enough to run outside when it’s hot? We get into the purpose of bricks and good heat volume tactics. 

Topics:

• Mike and Robbie’s Hair Cut delirium 
• Heat, Humidity, Dew Point overview (starts at 10 minutes)
• Heat acclimation
• Heart Rate too high?
• RPE and Recovery are different
• Are you “losing fitness or speed?”
• What are you doing BEFORE you run in heat?
• The Dew Point crushes people
• Pushing too hard in heat . . . how you’ll know
• Weight Loss and Heat 
• The best way to run yourself into the ground
• Managing stress 
• Taming your ego
• The problem with “throwing in” a Sprint or Oly 
• Crushing Yourself doesn’t make you better or faster
• The main objective of training 
• Getting wrecked in heat doesn’t make you faster
• Why Sprints and Olys can be more dangerous
• The Garmin “Heat Acclimation” function
• Rekindling your spirit to train when it’s hot
• When you get off the the bike in a race . . . 
• Running off the bike Mentality
• Having Patience in the heat 

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