Category: Fitness

In the last post, I recapped what happened during my very first marathon—a painful experience that, strangely enough, left me wanting more. In this post, I’ll cover my post-race recovery and the first four weeks of my new marathon training block, which concluded with an all-out VO₂ max and lactate threshold test at a sports…

After having some fun with running gamification in Part 4.10, it’s time to return to the real world. Rather than continuing with another structured series, I’ll be switching to a more traditional blog format. Over the coming months, I’ll document my marathon training block from May to September 2026, sharing my successes, failures, setbacks, lessons…

In Part 4.9, we discussed signing up for your first race and the importance of having a goal to work toward. Throughout this series, I have shared many practical strategies for becoming a stronger, healthier, and more resilient runner. In this final post, I want to discuss something a little different. I want to talk…

In Part 4.8, we talked about rest and recovery, and how taking a day off is still an important part of training. In Part 4.9, we will discuss signing up for your first race, explore the most common race distances available to runners, and review what you can generally expect from each of them. Just…

In Part 4.7, we discussed running-specific nutrition and how to fuel training, recovery, and racing. Throughout the earlier parts of this series, we have also discussed how to get started with running, how to build an aerobic engine, how to train intelligently using the 80/20 principle, how to use running data, how to prevent injuries,…

In Part 4.5 and Part 4.6, we discussed running-specific strength training and running-specific drills, respectively. In this post, we will turn our attention to another important aspect of becoming a better runner: nutrition. We will discuss how to fuel your training, optimize recovery, and develop a race-day nutrition strategy that supports both performance and enjoyment…

In Part 4.5, we discussed strength training and how stronger muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones can improve running performance while reducing injury risk. Strength training helps build the hardware of the body. In this post, we will discuss how to improve the software: running-specific drills. Unlike strength training, which focuses on building stronger tissues, running…

In Part 4.4, I discussed some common running-related injuries, my personal experiences with them, how I managed them, and what you can do to potentially prevent them in the first place. In this post, we will focus on one of the most effective injury-prevention tools available to runners: strength training. More specifically, we will focus…