Running
Recovery: What Actually Works
Sleep, food and doing less. Everything else is a rounding error, and some of the rounding errors cost a lot of money.
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Challenges
How Fit Are You Really?
A short set of tests covering the qualities endurance training tends to skip. You can do all of them in one session, and the results are usually informative.
Challenges
Can a Runner Become a Hybrid Athlete?
Runners start with the hardest part already built. What transfers, what does not, and a realistic look at the first eight weeks of training for both.
Challenges
Your First Fitness Race: What to Expect
A hybrid race is not a running race with obstacles. It is a pacing problem with a strength component, and runners who treat it as the former tend to have a bad day.
Strength
Mobility for Runners: What Is Worth Your Time
Most runners do not need to be more flexible. They need specific ranges of motion they can control under load — which is a different thing, and takes about ten minutes.
Training
The Weekly Structure That Works for Most Runners
One long run, one quality session, one steadier effort, and the rest genuinely easy. A default template and the reasoning behind each slot.