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We're here with Lee and Wastany, I am saying correctly though many say it wrong.

Yes it is Waste to me. I try to correct everybody when I can. I appreciate that.

You're very welcome. Let's talk about training for a race in elevation.

So I'm pretty lucky because I live it around 5,600 feet.

So it's pretty easy to, you know, go find stuff higher than that to train for mountains.

And what if you suggest if someone is a flat lander,

they live where it's flat, but then they want to travel

for Spartan and go to these fun mountain races?

You know, it's gonna be hard to train

for the actual lung capacity.

I guess you're not going to be accustomed to the elevation,

but you can definitely still train by maybe getting on a treadmill

and putting it at an incline

and running at that incline and even adding some weight to really have to build that leg strength that you might not get.

How would you incorporate that into someone's running schedule already if they've already, like say they're already

running four to five times a week and they're just you know they're breaking up they're doing some

longer stuff how would you then incorporate this inclined stuff? I would definitely

spend at least one day a week doing a good health session,

you know, where you hop on the treadmill and do some repeats.

Let's talk a little bit about nutrition.

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