Heat Training for Summer Ultras - Danny Westergaard & Jimmy Dean Freeman

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🗓️ 20 June 2013

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In the Northern Hemisphere, we are now approaching the heat of the summer. Make sure you prepare yourself by listening and learning from a couple people that really know how to train for heat. Jimmy Dean Freeman, SoCal Coyotes, joins us with his friend Danny Westergaard. Danny has run Badwater 6 times and done a triple crossing of Badwater (875 miles). In seven years, Danny has crossed the Death Valley 16 times!

How long should it take to become aclimated?
What strategies work best?
What advantages will you have if aclimated?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition of Tailwind, Tip of the Trail.
0:11.4	You said that without stuttering.
0:12.4	Oh, Scott, that's amazing.
0:13.4	Don't ask me to do it again.
0:15.4	I'm Don Freeman.
0:16.4	I'm Faith Goss.
0:17.4	I'm Scott and today's Tailwind, Tip of the Trail, is by our friend Ian Torrance.
0:23.2	Ian.
0:24.2	Tip, hey, I think it's really important that we work hard our weaknesses in training
0:34.3	and we push forward our strengths in racing.
0:39.2	Ooh, that's philosophical.
0:41.9	That's deep.
0:42.9	Yeah.
0:43.9	So let's talk about a weakness.
0:44.9	It could be like downhill or you're climbing or something in those moments.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:51.1	I get a lot of questions.
0:52.6	I don't say someone from Florida is going to do western states.
0:58.4	How do I prepare for that?
1:04.1	Well, I think we can figure out that terrain is going to be your weakness.
1:10.2	So you need to work on that, you know, you do that in Florida, but you're going to
1:13.9	find bridges.
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