Just looking for a few extra tips when preparing for an early season hot IM when living in New England. I have been riding the trainer with a heat lamp, been able to travel for some warmer climate runs, and using a steam room. My thoughts are that the steam room doesn’t really help much if you can’t actually exercise in it, but figured it couldn’t hurt. Also been working hard to up my sports drink intake during workouts to help my stomach handle it on race day. Any other good tips?
I wrote something on that very topic a while back.
http://acadianendurance.blogspot.com/2013/01/training-for-heat-when-its-not-that-hot.html
We no longer do two specific heat acclimation workouts every week, closer to one; but the execution practice with higher heat is definitely still in the toolbox to figure out what food, hydration, power, pace, HR will work on race day.