Today's tailwind tip of the trail is brought to you by Faith Goss.

Today's tip of the trail involves ice.

If you're fortunate enough to be at a race that has ice at the aid stations, it can become

in very handy during summer months when it's extremely hot out.

I choose to carry a hankerchief when I run and I put ice in it and I can wrap it around

my neck.

Or if you're running with a hat, you can put ice in your hat and it provides a slow

trickle down the back of your neck where your temperature sensors are and so it can cool

down your entire body.

How do you use ice?

Do you use ice?

In my diet coke.

No, I don't drink diet coke anymore.

I do the same thing.

I usually wear a hat and I find that it races and that's tough to do on training days because

you don't just run across a cooler of ice, but on race days, I'll take some ice and

put it in my hat.

Or you can dip it in your local stream if it's sanitary enough?

Yeah.

I recommend putting ice in your bottle and actually getting inside of you and to drop that core

temperature.

Good idea to fill that ice in that bottle and run down the trail.

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