Changing up my speed workouts helped me run my fastest mile in five years.
After nearly 25 years of living in Atlanta, I should be used to running in the city’s brutal heat and humidity. But when the temperatures start to soar every summer, my motivation for even the shortest and easiest of runs tanks.And I’m not alone.“Running in hot conditions is really hard, even if you’re one of the best in the world,” says Hayden Cox, founder of Railroad Athletics and a USATF-certified coach who works with athletes like reigning U.S.
, a board-certified physician, research scientist, and author of The Stress Paradox.“Hot weather raises your core body temperature, so exercise feels more difficult in warm weather, especially outdoors, because the body is simultaneously managing two sources of heat stress: internal heat generated by exercise and external heat from the environment,” explains Bergquist.
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