The Impact Of Weather On Endurance Racing – Runners are well aware that heat and high humidity often lead to slower race times. However, dealing with the heat is more than just a test of endurance; It’s a strategic conundrum that leaves many athletes pondering – how do they adapt their race plan to harsh weather conditions?
With Stryd, you can easily change your pace plans in hot, humid or high altitude conditions to ensure optimal performance and race your best.
The Impact Of Weather On Endurance Racing
How to use Stryd power data to adjust your running intensity in real-time to environmental conditions
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A 2022 study in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise concluded that “a quarter of endurance running events were conducted in moderate, high, or extreme heat” and that “at any degree…outside these optimal conditions, performance decreased by 0.3%-0.4%.” (MANTZIOS, 2022)
These statistics show that heat and humidity play a frequent role on race day and that even small increases in temperature can lead to significant and predictable changes in performance.
This is great news for runners looking to perform at their best. The predictable impact of heat and humidity on running performance means there are simple ways to adjust your race plan accordingly.
Overexertion early in the race can lead to early fatigue and overheating. If you run at your optimal pace, and slower than you might in cooler conditions, you can manage your intensity throughout the race and leapfrog by competitors who may have fatigued prematurely in the race.
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Preparation can be especially important for longer races that may start in cooler temperatures in the morning. You may be able to start at a higher intensity when conditions are cooler and then have the opportunity to back off to a more optimal intensity as temperatures rise.
With Stryd, it’s not only possible, but easy to create your own game plan to best compete in any environmental situation.
The Stryd ecosystem allows for a number of convenient and precise methods to adapt your race or daily training plan to hot and humid conditions. Let’s take a look at some of the top options.
Making a one-time adjustment to your run or race goal is easy with the Super Power Calculator. All you have to do is enter your normal power goal and the temperature, humidity and altitude conditions you normally train in and the weather conditions you will be training or racing in.
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Are you preparing for a hot or humid race? Use the race power calculator in the Stryd mobile app or PowerCenter to adjust to your power goal.
Stryd quantifies your training conditions, such as heat and humidity, over the past 90 days to establish a baseline. All you have to do is enter the expected conditions on race day for an adjusted power target.
If you run with the Stryd Apple Watch app, heat and humidity adjustments to your power goal can be made automatically and in real time for each run.
Stryd’s Apple Watch app features an environment-adjusted stress value that gives you a single real-time value to gauge your effort. You can place the ambient power on your data screens to display the data conveniently.
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Join the live stream for a demonstration on how to adjust your power target for heat and humidity
The Stryd Team will be live next week on Tuesday, June 27th at 12pm MST to dive deep into the top ways you can adjust your power target in hot and humid conditions to compete at your best!
Be sure to join us live to ask questions so you can succeed in your next race with Stryd.
For runners who have been through the challenges of racing in heat and humidity, it’s clear that these conditions can have a big impact on your finish time. Navigating these challenges often begs the question: How can I plan a race strategy to perform at my best?
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Stryd makes planning your race convenient. Every race, regardless of its weather challenges, becomes an opportunity to defy your expectations and race to your abilities.
MANTZIOS, KONSTANTINOS1; IOANNOU, LEONIDAS G.1; PANAGIOTAKI, ZOE1; ZIAKA, STYLIANI1; PÉRIARD, JULIEN D.2; RACINAIS, SÉBASTIEN3; NYBO, LARS4; FLOURIS, ANDREAS D.1. Effects of weather parameters on endurance running performance: a discipline-specific analysis of 1258 races. Medicine and Science in Sports and Physical Activity 54(1):p 153-161, January 2022. | DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002769
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Many modern simulators today feature impressive weather and environment simulation systems, from sunny days with warm tracks to storm clouds and wet tracks with real-time drainage, fog, drying lines, changing track temperatures and even seasonal foliage!
There are now even sims that have real-time weather so you can experience the actual weather at that location the day you decide to race there, it’s really pretty awesome!
You can choose to race in the dry, run in the wet, or even have a race where the weather changes several times during your run, so you may experience all types of weather during the race, this is great for long endurance racing.
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These changing conditions add a whole new element to the experience, allowing you to plan your strategy, think about tyres, wear, pitstops and adapt your driving style to each different situation.
Feeling the difference between a very cold track and a hot track, gauging how long a change in weather might last and whether it’s worth staying out on sections if it starts to rain, but it might not last long.
There are even sims where you have to change your driving line, with the rubber on parts of the track going from grippy to slippery as the weather changes from dry to wet!
To be honest it’s really quite amazing to see how far the software has come over the years, and even old titles that don’t yet have these capabilities are being developed for the future, for example iracing announced last year that rain would be coming to the popular simulator at some point.
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I like to jump into a server that has a changing weather forecast and see who turns into Ayrton Senna in the rain and who can’t take it (like Anne Peebles).
It brings such an atmosphere to the race, just watching the transitions (especially with accelerated day-to-night transitions) can be spectacular in itself!
I remember doing a couple of one hour races with a fully accelerated 24 hour cycle and varying conditions in VR with my friends Pete, we were both just blown away by the experience!
The amount of time and work the developers have to put into these amazing features must be absolutely mind boggling! Just the graphics alone for the changing textures, seasonal foliage, rain, cloud and sky animations must be a monstrous task!
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With some sims having real light sources and pulsating sun rays on some parts of the track heat it up, while other parts are in the shade, cooler and it takes longer to dry off after a shower. Even big tracks like Nordschleife where it might rain in one part but not in the other part, the level of variation is simply amazing!……….
But what if all those amazing features and the developers’ hard work become completely redundant and useless for anything but hot bands because of one major problem???
What if you can’t race online because of an inadequate internet connection or you’re just too far from the servers you want to race on? What if you work unsociable hours and by the time you get online, there’s almost no one to compete with, or you just prefer to compete offline?
Have you ever bought a sim based on the fact that it has all those great weather capabilities? You are really excited for an amazing race with changing conditions and pit stops, so you set yourself a two-hour endurance race. You’ve chosen your track and car combo, put in a lot of practice laps to get to know the