All posts tagged: Training

Quick Links — Week 27

«Going to Exhaus­tion. Even When You Aren’t Pre­pared.» — Steve Mag­ness, The Sci­ence of Run­ning «The Race to the Start Line: Return­ing to Run­ning After Hav­ing Covid-19» — Talya Mins­berg, The New York Times «Run­ning has taught me some impor­tant life lessons» — Audrey Dana­her, The Globe and Mail «How to run 100K (in 20 steps)» — Kee­ley Milne, Can­na­di­an Run­ning Mag­a­zine «6 rea­sons why trail run­ning is worth adding to your work­out rou­tine» — Spencer McK­ee, Out­There Col­orado «Women Run the World: Aoife Cooke Would Love for Her Sex­u­al­i­ty to be Irrel­e­vant» — Cathal Den­nehy, Wom­en’s Run­ning «Alter­na­tives to UTMB – The Oth­er Epic Moun­tain Races in Europe» — Helen Dixon, Trail & Kale Quick Links are usu­al­ly added once a week to this blog and cov­er every top­ic possible.

Quick Links — Week 23

«Resis­tance Band Work­outs for Run­ners» — Lau­ra Nor­ris Run­ning «Run­ning Out, Lucy Bartholomew run­ning the 231km Lara­p­in­ta Trail in Aus­tralia» — Salomon TV, YouTube «New Study Shows What Hap­pens To Your Body Post-Ultra» — David Roche, Trail Run­ner Mag­a­zine «How to Nail an Effec­tive Cool-Down Rou­tine» — Mered­ith Butulis, Wom­en’s Run­ning «How To Start Work­ing Out Again: 3 Help­ful Ideas To Kick­start Your Come­back» — Amber Say­er, Marathon Hand­book Quick Links are usu­al­ly added once a week to this blog and cov­er every top­ic possible.

Quick Links — Week 20

«Hike Clerb is Mak­ing the Out­doors a More Inclusive—and Stylish—Space» — Kai­lyn Brown, High­sno­bi­ety «The Sci­ence Of Down­hill Run­ning» — David Roche, Trail Run­ner Mag­a­zine «I’m a run­ner, and I’ve just joined Stra­va. I regret it» — Matt Evans, Techradar «Pre­vent Race Fatigue With This Work­out!» — The Run­ning Chan­nel, YouTube «Age no bar­ri­er: how Jo Schoonbroodt smashed the 70+ marathon record» — Sean Ingle, The Guardian «How Stra­va Fame Became a Bur­den for Mol­ly Sei­del» — Mar­tin Fritz Huber, Out­side Mag­a­zine Quick Links are usu­al­ly added once a week to this blog and cov­er every top­ic possible.

A woman is holding a towel while excercising.

Three running gadgets and technologies that cought my attention lately

While it’s true you don’t need any tech or gad­gets to run, there are a lot of them out there that are fun to use or can pro­vide you with data, moti­vat­ing insights or that can enrich your work­out. I’ve come across three gad­gets and new tech­nolo­gies late­ly that caught my atten­tion — and that I’d like to briefly intro­duce to you. Whoop 4.0 Descrip­tion: the Whoop 4.0 is a fit­ness track­er that col­lects data about recov­ery, strain and sleep per­for­mance. «From these fig­ures, it offers advice on how you should bal­ance your train­ing and rest to achieve peak ath­let­ic per­for­mance,» Har­ry Bull­more writes on Live­Science. What sounds like any oth­er fit­ness track­er on the mar­ket, has its USPs: the band itself is screen­less, IP68 dust­proof and water-resis­­tant at depths of up to 10 meters for two hours. The lack of GPS might be anoth­er con for some of us, but on the data sight the Whoop is show­ing off, as «it is the mul­ti-dimen­­sion­al approach to cal­cu­lat­ing recov­ery that is the jew­el in the Whoop …

Quick Links — Week 14

«Run­ning The World’s Slip­peri­est MARATHON On PURE ICE!» — Göran Win­blad, YouTube «Updat­ed Start Lists Announced for 126th Boston Marathon, B.A.A. 5K, and B.A.A. Invi­ta­tion­al Mile» — Boston Ath­let­ic Asso­ci­a­tion «Stay­ing hydrat­ed may reduce the risk of heart fail­ure» — Rachael Ret­tner, Live Sci­ence «Why Tom Evans is look­ing for­ward to a chal­lenge in the Himalayas» — Shail Desai, Red Bull Quick Links are usu­al­ly added once a week to this blog and cov­er every top­ic possible.