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s2/e21 Muscle Cramps (What We Do & Don't Know) with Coach Elisabeth

The Running Explained Podcast

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Are You Having Leg Coughs?

If you have experienced leg cramps at mile ten of your half marathon, but you it's 85 degrees and its 80 percent midity, i mean, hello, dehydration and fatigue, right? Becaes. Heat is stress. Heat increases fatigue. Wrighte the higher level of stress, which for a lot of runners means intensity. So heat can increase the level of intensity or effort. As temperature rises, we all know we have to slow down to maintain the same effort level because add stress.

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