2024-12-11
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It's December and it's cold, which leads to the question, how do you stay warm?
Burn something.
Ed is Stone just coached the BYU cross country team to a national championship in freezing cold temperatures, and he has a tip.
Yeah, we have a little bit of a hack prior to the start of the race.
There's that five minutes where you will strip down, take those sweats off, and you're just standing there shivering in your short shorts and your singlet.
So the little hack that we found, and it's very old school, our trainers and coaches will just coat the runner's arms, exposed shoulders and legs with a thin little layer of olive oil.
And that tends to give them a little buffer from the cold.
And particularly if it's a windy day and if the temperatures are, you know, freezing, it just kind of bridges that gap until the gun finally sounds and then they are on their way.
And is this like a special sports performance olive oil or is this just go to the grocery store?
Yeah, you know, it's just whatever's on sale that day, that particular day, or whatever, whatever our trainer comes back with, you know.
And it's interesting, though, because I've been contacted from a olive oil company out of New York.
I won't give you the brand name because we haven't inked the deal yet, but they, they want to be our sponsors.
So.
Yeah.
Kind of funny.
If I were to, if I were to go back and watch this race, the footage, would I say, you know what, BYU looks shinier than all the other runners on the start line?
Well, I don't know that that would have been that dramatic.