Michael Easter

And so you just kind of breathe shallow.

You do get used to it a little bit more.

Do a lot of heat training, obviously.

I'm not just going out there for my first run being like,

okay, we're going to wing this thing.

I spend a lot of time in sauna where it's a lot hotter than 130 degrees, and so 130 degrees feels better.

Does it feel wet because you're sweating so much, or is it so hot the sweat's evaporating and you're pouring?

Why is that?

I'm dumping water on me constantly from the time I start to... Well, actually, climbing up Whitney Portal, by that point, I'm actually in cooler temperatures.

And so the last 13 miles is the only time you're not dumping water consistently on you.

But it dries so fast because we're in the desert.

It is dry.

So you're constantly just dump, dump.

People ask how much water I had the whole time.

I'm like, it's hard to say because I was... They'd fill it and I'd be dumping and sipping.

But never...

would you want to be dry at all?

You want to keep your hair wet, clothes wet, everything wet.

Yeah, because it is so dry and so hot that your sweat probably, if you had sweat alone, that's going to evaporate immediately and then you're going to overheat.

So how did you heat train for this?