Outside of the obvious, like stay hydrated and know your body’s limits, what things have worked for you on race day to maximize performance?
Outside of the obvious, like stay hydrated and know your body’s limits, what things have worked for you on race day to maximize performance?
Stupidly obvious, but lot's of hot humid training runs in the months leading up to race day. That allows the proper mindset on race day. Other's are worrying about tolerating it, while you're used to it.
Race day hacks. Wear as little clothes as possible. Proper pacing based on training runs in similar conditions, not PRs run in deal conditions.
just remember that if it's hot, sticky and miserable for you, it's hot, sticky and miserable for everyone else in the race as well. that should be your mind-set when you're on the start line. it's an even playing field.
Yeah this is good advice. If you're racing at 9am, doing workouts at 6am when it's a little cooler or at 6pm when it's less humid might not always be the best choice. Do some sessions in race conditions. Head into races well hydrated/fueled.
Stay cool during your warm up on race day. Use ice/throw water on yourself in the race. My real advice is to figure out race effort on the day. We're so fixated on time as runners but heat/humidity affects that. If you don't adjust, you'll run slower than you could have. Say you're ready for a 5k at 5:15 pace but it's going to be hot/humid on race day. So many go out at that because that's what they trained for and then end up averaging 5:30-5:40 pace & get frustrated. 5:20-5:25 was probably the right choice but going out at goal pace led to a bigger slide. It's not the most fun thing but go into bad weather races knowing whatever you run is worth something faster. Focus on place. Maybe you can beat faster people by executing a smarter race.