Once a month I’ll share a short summary of the Badwater135 build: training highlights, the odd race, a story or two I’ve picked up along the way, and where the journey’s at.
No spam, no pestering — just one email a month. If you’re chasing a big goal of your own, I hope it nudges you to start, stick with it, and go further than you thought you could.
It’s no surprise that heat acclimation is required for Badwater. It’s probably the most frequent question I get asked in fact. So what does heat training look like? How do you do it in the UK?
On the 23rd of May I toed the line on my first backyard ultra - I wrote before about the plan, just 10 laps. This race wasn’t really for me, it was for Basil. He’s been wanting to do an “official” race for ages, but at 13yrs old its hard to find something of any distance that he can enter. Most races fall under UK Athletics where strict age limits apply - so you can’t enter when you are fit and 13 but you can be obese and 30?
In this episode, Ben and Fletch discuss what 10 days in the heat chamber looks like. We talk about how quickly the improvements come and start to dial into the specifics of Badwater 135.