Blood Tests for Endurance Athletes: What Do You Need?

Blood Tests for Endurance Athletes: What Do You Need?

Blood markers in endurance sports: measure, understand, train better Anyone who trains regularly puts the body through demands that show up not only in performance data but also in blood work. Many athletes know their threshold power, their heart rate zones, or their...
The Ultra-Trail Marathon: A Run Toward Yourself

The Ultra-Trail Marathon: A Run Toward Yourself

How ultratrail running pushes your limits—physically, mentally, and in life  “Ultra runners are as different to marathoners as are sequoias to daffodils.” — Jared Beasley It’s nine o’clock at night. You’ve been running for more than ten hours. Your headlamp throws a...
Masters Sport: Getting Older, Training Smarter

Masters Sport: Getting Older, Training Smarter

Few myths in endurance sport are more persistent than this one: as you get older, you simply have to accept that performance declines. Train less, demand less, rest more. Those who believe this underestimate both the adaptability of the human body and what sports...
Tapering and Race Preparation

Tapering and Race Preparation

Tips and Tricks for Tapering and Race Preparation You have done the work. Months of early mornings, long weekends, brick sessions, and careful nutrition. The fitness is built. Race week is not the time to add to it — it is the time to deliver it to the start line...
Nutrition as the Fourth Discipline

Nutrition as the Fourth Discipline

Fuelling for long-course triathlon Imagine this: you’ve trained for months. Your swim, bike and run is on pace. Race day comes—and by K 25 of the marathon, you’re walking. Not because of fitness or pacing, but because you ran out of fuel or your stomach shut down....
Race Day Nutrition for Ironman

Race Day Nutrition for Ironman

Ironman: Your fueling strategy on Race Day From swim start to finish line You have trained the fitness. You have practised the nutrition in long rides and brick sessions. You have loaded your carbohydrates and slept reasonably well. Now it is race morning, the gun...