Preparing for Comrades Marathon race day conditions
Preparing for Comrades Marathon race day conditions
On the next episode of Ask Coach Parry we have another question in from the UK again. Just a couple of days ago we were talking about running in the heat and humidity. This one comes from Carel Muller. He says he struggled with the heat at the last 2 Comrades Marathon’s.
It is something that a lot of people in the north do battle with, what advice can you give Carel with regards to simulating warm weather training during the British winter in particular to adjust more to the heat in South Africa?
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Brad Brown: On the next episode of Ask Coach Parry we have another question in from the UK again. Just a couple of days ago we were talking about running in the heat and humidity. This one comes from Carel Muller. He says he struggled with the heat at the last 2 Comrades Marathon’s.
It is something that a lot of people in the north do battle with, what advice can you give Carel with regards to simulating warm weather training during the British winter in particular to adjust more to the heat in South Africa?
Lindsey Parry: There are a few things that you can do. Being in the UK, you have got access to some fairly warm places. Perhaps a few training weekends in a place like Spain – which gets incredibly hot in the Spanish summer.
What else can you do?
That would be one idea. Maybe, depending on your budget, every 2 – 3 weekends you can shoot over to Spain and get in some real warm weather long runs there. You can also over do it on the clothing front.
So if you really layer up on your clothing – 2 tracksuits etc. That is something that the Kenyans do to simulate extreme weather conditions. Or you can go the proper whole hog and set up a whole environment.
If you have got a treadmill at home, you can close up the room, crank up the heater – get the room up to 30 – low 30 °C temperatures and bang the kettle on – just take the lid off the kettle so that it never clicks off and you literally just let the kettle boil into the room so that you create a real hot humid little environment that you run in.
If you ran there 2 – 3 times a week, that would really help to get you acclimatised to running in the heat and humidity in South Africa.
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