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EP 580: Altitude Training - Best Practices for Adaptation

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Do you have an adventure or race at high altitude this summer?  You will want to listen to Coach Ian Sharman teach us about the ins and outs of how to adapt most effectively.

Ian has experience at altitude.  He is a four-time winner of the high-altitude Leadville 100 (lowest point is over 9000' and climbing up to 12,532').

We talk about

  • when do you need to consider acclimatization
  • where to train
  • how to train
  • how soon should you be at the event
  • what if you don't have time to spend at altitude

Check out his article "High Altitude Training" in Ultra Running Magazine

Find out more about Sharman Ultra Coaching

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everything gets harder basically at altitude, so if you can make it easier on the body, that

0:06.4

is the simplest thing.

0:07.7

It screws around with the body's ability to sense things a little bit as well, so your

0:12.0

judgment may be really dialed in at sea level, or whatever conditions you have at home,

0:16.6

but it may not be quite as dialed in here.

0:30.8

Welcome to the Trailhead of Trail Runnation, where we go on virtual trail runs with interesting

0:35.7

expert guests that help us at some level become a better runner and hopefully better human

0:41.3

beings.

0:42.3

If this is your first time, we welcome you, everyone is welcome on the trail, put on your

0:46.8

shoes, and let's get down the trail.

0:48.8

And you know what's got today?

0:49.8

I was thinking about it, this is the very reason that we started trail runnation.

0:54.6

What if we could bring an expert like Ian Sharman along for a run and ask him about

1:00.3

altitude training?

1:01.7

I thought I knew a little bit about altitude training and acclimatization.

1:05.6

I learned two really good gold nuggets you want to stay tuned to see what those gold

1:11.4

nuggets are.

1:12.4

It's got through more than two.

1:13.8

Well, I said I had two.

1:15.8

Oh, okay, okay.

1:18.0

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1:23.1

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