How to Race in -25° and Snow with Richard Kresser

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🗓️ 3 March 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Richard Kresser loves a challenge. One of those has been on his radar for six years. The Arrowhead 135 is an endurance event held in Minnesota during one of the coldest times of the year. Temperatures are regularly below zero (Fahrenheit), including a record -42° in 2011. This does NOT include the wind chill! This race could be the anti-hero of the Badwater 135 and brings with it some very unique challenges including:

gear you must carry. Usually pulled in a pulk (a sled that the runners pull behind them)
shoes?
sleep?
cold acclimatization
hydrating & keeping your water liquid
only 3 aid stations
wearing latex gloves

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0:00.0	It's always easier to run with the tailwind.
0:09.4	Tailwind nutrition, tailwind nutrition, they have all the nutrition products that you
0:14.6	need, including the new rebuild product, which is a recovery drink that they're introducing.
0:22.1	I was just informed by Jenny and Jeff this morning that those products have been shipped
0:26.6	to the brick and mortar stores, they're going to have them for a week or two before it's
0:30.5	going to be available online, but she did assure me on March 12, the rebuild products
0:36.2	will be able to be purchased online from tailwind nutrition.com.
0:39.8	I'm looking forward to seeing what the label looks like.
0:43.6	It looks really nice.
0:44.9	We've tried the generic label, which was clear, and boy, it was tasty, the vanilla and
0:50.0	chocolate flavor.
0:51.5	Do you think a label, a product tastes better, Scott?
0:55.2	Makes me think it tastes better.
0:56.8	Absolutely.
0:57.8	Well, we learned that it's full of nutrition, it's full of science and it's full of goodness
1:02.8	to help rebuild muscle and get us back out there again, so go to tailwindnutrition.com.
1:08.6	Speaking of label, Scott, Trevor International has a bit of a label itself.
1:12.6	It's called P-E-K, and you can put it right on your skin and it makes you perform great.
1:18.1	And not only that, we have some new arm sleeves coming out.
1:20.8	Oh, we're excited.
1:22.2	If you didn't get a pair of the original buff and arm sleeves, all weather sleeves, we
1:28.8	have some new ones that are coming out with a desert southwest theme.
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