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Training consistently but suddenly feeling slower? Your normal pace is harder to hold, your heart rate is higher, and every workout seems to take more out of you.

That does not necessarily mean you are losing fitness. Heat can mask the fitness you have built while adding stress your body must learn to manage. In this episode, Coach Justin and Coach Katie explain how heat acclimation works, how to prepare for hot and humid conditions, and how to build heat exposure into training without compromising recovery.

What You’ll Learn

• Why heat makes your normal pace feel harder even when your fitness is intact
• How active training, sauna sessions, and other passive heat methods create adaptation
• Why chasing cool-weather pace in hot conditions can undermine your training
• How summer heat training can support stronger performance when temperatures fall

Timestamps

00:00 Podcast update and current training plans
18:12 Why major races are being changed or canceled because of heat
27:36 The environmental risk athletes often leave out of race preparation
39:14 What heat acclimation changes inside the body
44:50 Race-day cooling strategies—and why they cannot replace preparation
50:20 Why every workout should not become a heat-training session
52:25 Active versus passive heat-acclimation protocols
58:10 How runners should adjust summer training volume and intensity
1:04:59 Why you should stop chasing pace during hot workouts
1:09:30 Feeling slow does not mean you are losing fitness
1:12:51 How heat masks fitness—and why it appears when temperatures fall

For coaching inquiries:

Coach Katie → https://fuel2run.com

Coach Justin → https://tabularasaracing.com

Podcast Email → theenduranceathletejourney@gmail.com