Running Times Magazine: Myths About Running in Heat

Running Times Magazine: Myths About Running in Heat: "After hundreds of thousands of years, you might think that we as a species would have our physiology down pat. The process of working hard, recovering and getting stronger seems almost instinctual these days, even if in many ways its application to running is somewhat recent. Yet if science has shown us anything since the days of Descartes, it's that one minute's moment of genius insight ('Drink as many fluids as you can in a marathon') is the next moment's blunder ('Drink too much water and you could die of hyponatremia'). Science, it seems, is an evolving art."