The Hydration thread inspired me to start this blog post that I hope to update as thoughts pop up. I cc'd what I wrote there to here but will be adding to it as time goes on.
I learned how to run in the 80's. At that time no one had camelbacks or ran with waterbottles, etc. In practice we'd run as much as 18 miles in the hot California sun without water (unless there was a stream we could drink from somewhere) and no one ever passed out, got heatstroke, etc.
I moved back to America after almost 20 years of living in a place where running wasn't an option and after moving back several months ago, I can't help but notice how much stuff people are buying to go running.
I think it's important to think about hydration and drink when you can but it seems to me that we would do well to trust our bodies a little bit more and second guess the value of the running industry's next flavor of the month.
Running BF makes me want to go ever deeper into the less is more approach that seems to be increasingly grounded in research on how primitive man/woman ran.
I learned how to run in the 80's. At that time no one had camelbacks or ran with waterbottles, etc. In practice we'd run as much as 18 miles in the hot California sun without water (unless there was a stream we could drink from somewhere) and no one ever passed out, got heatstroke, etc.
I moved back to America after almost 20 years of living in a place where running wasn't an option and after moving back several months ago, I can't help but notice how much stuff people are buying to go running.
I think it's important to think about hydration and drink when you can but it seems to me that we would do well to trust our bodies a little bit more and second guess the value of the running industry's next flavor of the month.
Running BF makes me want to go ever deeper into the less is more approach that seems to be increasingly grounded in research on how primitive man/woman ran.