How Training in the Heat Can Boost Your Body

The Fleet Feet Blog is full of helpful (and sometimes tasty!) information! Embrace the heat this summer as you train: It can boost your body!

A decade ago, my wife was presented with an awesome opportunity. She would work at a rural medical center on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic for a month. I would help where I could. That included training her for a marathon. The only catch was the weather – daytime highs were always right around 90. The lows were 80 if we were lucky. And the humidity? Oh, the humidity.

We knew from some basic research that it would take 10-14 days to acclimate to the heat. What we didn’t know was that our stay at sweltering sea level could have similar effects to training at altitude.

Yes, altitude.

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