Heat Slowing You Down? Use These Strategies to Train for Your Next Race Straight Through Summer

Heat Slowing You Down? Use These Strategies to Train for Your Next Race Straight Through Summer

Learn how to safely train for your fall marathon in hot weather with expert tips on heat acclimation, monitoring intensity, and staying cool during workouts.

Why you need to train in the heat

“I’ve always felt like the bridesmaid at the world championship,” Lucy Charles-Barclay reflected after her 2023 Kona victory. And with good multisport matrimonial reason, finishing second in Kona in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022. Those near-misses were left in the past on the Kona lava fields in October 2023 as she stormed to a new course record of 8:24:31. An incredible performance that planted the ceremonial cranial garland upon a British triathle…