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Heat acclimation?

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paulcook
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Jun 2023
11:07pm, 7 Jun 2023
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I never wore a vest


Interesting. I have, and some (many?) times regretted it later.
Dvorak
Dvorak
Jun 2023
9:48am, 8 Jun 2023
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My Garmin isn't posh enough for heat acclimation, but actually, I prefer running when it's a bit warmer. Or more exactly, when it's warmer and sunnier. Which is possibly a disadvantage in Scotland ;-)

We don't have a seasonal shift like you, Bowman 🇸🇪, the hot days jump out and surprise us. Which can happen from anytime from February to June. Then they often go away again. If there's a decent spell, though, maybe three runs for me. Some runners up here though I think never fully adjust to anything above 17C.

(I set two HM PBS in Spain, one race was proper hot at the end. Although the flat courses had a lot to do with it.)
Bowman 🇸🇪
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Also an interesting aspect dvorak, and makes it even harder then.
Bazoaxe
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Jun 2023
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I stay not far from Dvorak and agree, it’s not really feasible here as we just don’t get a long enough period of warm enough weather to enable it.

It was warm for me on todays run and it had rained. I thought about a rain jacket but didn’t as I know that I would melt inside it and I was glad of that decision

I know when running on holiday and it is hit, I cannot hit the same paces as I would at home.

I do have an interesting background of marathons on hot days.

Edinburgh 2009 and a pb in 3:03 and I handled the heat well. The following year I managed 3:06 but found that harder work. Fast forward to London 2018 and it was no warmer than those two, but seemed a different kind of hear. I was arguably in better physical shape and ran a miserable 3:21 and I wasn’t in a great way when I finished.
Bowman 🇸🇪
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I guess humidity would be the culprit in the different races basoaxe?
Bowman 🇸🇪
Bowman 🇸🇪
Jun 2023
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Just running in the heat as much as I can, has done more than I anticipated. From feeling sick when it went from 5-10°C to 17-18°C
To having one of my best “sub maximal” runs Hr/pace I ever had in sun and 23°C heat. I’m always getting surprised of what the body is capable of in terms of adapting to different things.

It’s really not Mojave desert conditions yet, but still. 🐪 🌵 🏜️

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I have been wondering for a while about this.
Ever since I got very aware on the fact, that going from cold weather training to “warm” weather racing, on a marathon a few weeks ago, was not very optimal.
But according to most findings I’ve seen, it takes about 2 weeks of heat acclimation, then the body has adapted. But to what degree?

I mean if you are a 45 min 10k or a 3:30 marathon runner, I don’t think you will be able to do the same acclimatized or not.

So to perform, I guess...
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