Michael Easter

Like you have to get, like you said, you can't just be like, oh, I'm just going to do a lot of running.

You know, I'm trained for an ultra, but I've done it in say Montana or Idaho or whatever, where it's cold.

Like you have to, you have to get ready for that heat.

So what'd you do?

Definitely.

Um, well, I'm, I'm lucky enough to live in a very hot area.

Um, the first year I did it, I lived in Florida and so it was hot and humid.

It's very different, very different and no hills.

The second year I did it, I lived in St.

George.

And so I was able to get drier temperatures.

But we never hit over 100 degrees until the week of race, like the week that race hit us.

So I didn't experience it like I wanted to.

And you can only control so much.

Right.

I didn't have access to a sauna, um, very often.

And so I wasn't able to do what I was planning on doing.

And so you, you're going in there with like a mindset, like, Hey, I've done this before.

I can do it again.

I'm already, I'm starting my sauna training already because I want to do better, um, things that I've learned from the past and you know, what I want to break this year.