subject: So you have to run in the heat, listen to your body! [print this page] Normally, a person will involuntarily stop exercising and seek shelter from the heat when heat cramps or heat exhaustion starts to set in. However highly competitive athletes, are more vulnerable to heat disorders. They are highly competitive / motivated and therefore more likely to overextend themselves. In races they will often think more about the prize and ignore the signs their body is giving them to stop. If you watched the 1984 Olympic Woman Marathon you remember the last runner staggering across the finish line. Gabriela Anderson staggered out of control around the track to the finish. Heat exhaustion left her not knowing "where I was" but three times she waved off medical assistance because it would have prevented her from finishing.
So you have to run in the heat, listen to your body!
