Pacing: The Most Important Tool for Your Fastest Race

Pacing: The Most Important Tool for Your Fastest Race

Is Good Pacing an Art or a Science? Few things decide a race as much as the pace you choose. Months of training, solid nutrition, and motivation can all be undone by the wrong tempo in the first few kilometers. Pacing is therefore one of the core skills in endurance...
Heat as a Training Stimulus

Heat as a Training Stimulus

Heat Adaptation in Endurance Sports: Why It Improves Your Performance and How to Train It Deliberately Summer races, muggy training evenings, an Ironman under the blazing midday sun – heat is as much a part of endurance sport as headwind is part of cycling. While many...
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...
Gravel Biking: Freedom and adventure on two wheels.

Gravel Biking: Freedom and adventure on two wheels.

Gravel Biking: The Perfect Mix of Endurance Training, Adventure, and Chilled Cycling Gravel riding combines the speed and efficiency of road cycling with the adventure and freedom of off-road riding. You’re not hammering a criterium, and you’re not...
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...
Overview of the Most Popular Training Methods

Overview of the Most Popular Training Methods

Which Method is Best for You? Introductory article to a 5-part series More articles in this series:  Part 1: Pyramidal Method | Part 2: Threshold and Sweet Spot Method | Part 3: HIIT Method | Part 4: Polarised Training Method  | Part 5: The Norwegian Method Anyone...