{"id":81,"date":"2022-10-05T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/?p=81"},"modified":"2022-10-11T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:01:47","slug":"consultancy-heat-acclimation-for-marathon-des-sables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2022\/10\/05\/consultancy-heat-acclimation-for-marathon-des-sables\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultancy: Heat acclimation for Marathon Des Sables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We offer consultancy services to facilitate athletes to prepare for extreme climates including extremes in heat, cold and altitude. We recently worked with an athlete preparing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/marathondessables.co.uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/marathondessables.co.uk\/\">Marathon Des Sables<\/a>, called the toughest footrace on earth. MDS is an event that takes place each year in the Sahara Dessert where temperatures can reach up to 50 <sup>o<\/sup>C. Carried out over 6 days athletes must complete +250 kms, a massive challenge in some of the most extreme environmental conditions on earth, so much so that in 2021 during extreme heat less than half the 753 athletes that started the race finished and sadly one athlete died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-19.20.52-1024x383.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-19.20.52-1024x383.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-19.20.52-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-19.20.52-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-19.20.52-1536x574.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/files\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-05-at-19.20.52.png 1603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Athlete exercising in 40 <sup>o<\/sup>C 40% humidity, with internal core temperature hitting 39.5 <sup>o<\/sup>C in preparation for the MDS event. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in consultancy in extreme environments contact: Dr Owen Jeffries [owen.jeffries@newcastle.ac.uk]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the full range of services we offer at this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/sport\/sport-and-fitness\/hub\/testing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/sport\/sport-and-fitness\/hub\/testing\/\">https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/sport\/sport-and-fitness\/hub\/testing\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We offer consultancy services to facilitate athletes to prepare for extreme climates including extremes in heat, cold and altitude. We recently worked with an athlete preparing for the Marathon Des Sables, called the toughest footrace on earth. MDS is an event that takes place each year in the Sahara Dessert where temperatures can reach up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/2022\/10\/05\/consultancy-heat-acclimation-for-marathon-des-sables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consultancy: Heat acclimation for Marathon Des Sables&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consultancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/extremeenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}