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...
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...
Overview of the Training Methods – Part 1: Pyramidal Training

Overview of the Training Methods – Part 1: Pyramidal Training

Pyramidal Training: The Natural Middle Ground – With Clear Limits More base than threshold, more middle than polarized – why many athletes train pyramidally without knowing it, and what that means. Further articles in this series:  Overview of the Most Popular...
Overview of the Training Methods – Part 2: Threshold Training

Overview of the Training Methods – Part 2: Threshold Training

Threshold & Sweet-Spot Training: Big Stimulus, Less Time – But With Risk   More articles in this series:  Overview of the Most Popular Training Methods | Part 1: Pyramidal Method | Part 3: HIIT Method | Part 4: Polarised Training Method  | Part 5: The...