A bunch of years ago, a new coach I was working with sustained a minor soft tissue issue (peroneal tendon, as I recall) and I offered him some dit da jow to help ease the pain and ease his recovery. Next thing you know, half of my team was being told to use the stuff. It’s fantastic, yet hardly anyone in the endurance sports community knows about it. It’s time to let the cat out the bag. Continue reading
Month: September 2014
A Better Way to Run MaxVO2 Intervals
I’m about to tell you about one of my absolute favorite workouts because it is so darn effective at making people fast at running. It’s a variation on a running workout that came out of some research about 14 years ago and it’s amazing. Continue reading
Day 24 Update: Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge
This week was Phase 4 of the Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge. I think some of the exercises have been pretty amazing– about as important as Phase 2 was two weeks ago. Here’s what I’ve been doing, as well as some additions I’ve made. Continue reading
The Importance of Lactate Threshold
I just wanted to write a short post clarifying my position on lactate threshold and some exciting new product information to help optimize your training. Continue reading
Improve Your Recovery Runs (Run|Drill|Walk)
Today I wanted to talk about a way to make your recovery runs suck less. If you find yourself struggling the day after a hard track workout with the awful feeling of running– and just can’t wait to be done with it– here’s a variation on an old idea that might really help. Continue reading
Day 12 Update: Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge
This week was Phase 2 of the Kinetic Revolution 30-Day Challenge. While last week was useful and I could feel a slight difference, Phase 2 was revolutionary. Here’s what I found particularly useful and why. Continue reading
Revisiting Polarized Training
Every now and then, some new information comes along that just blows away everything that I was taught about training. Even more rare is the when older research gets updated and repackaged in a way that surprises me in startling new ways. Both happened to me last when I dug deeper into the research around something called “polarized training.” It may fundamentally change the way that I train– and you may want to try it as well. Continue reading
Black Diamond Race Report (Enumclaw, WA) (Race 15 of 2014)
I habitually like early summer races that are nice and flat with smooth paved surfaces. These are the kind of races that let me settle into a groove and dial in my effort precisely. So why on God’s green earth would I choose to do a hilly race yesterday with lots of trail running? Oddly, it’s because of a wedding. Continue reading
New Training Strategies Coming
This message is a quick head’s up about some changes that will be happening over the next few days here at The Athletic Time Machine. Continue reading
Future Products for Improving Video Quality
If you’ve watched either my TT training ride video or my race footage from my recent 40K TT, you’ll know that I haven’t perfected the art of stabilization or adding variety to my point-of-view. DC Rainmaker has been much more plugged in with this technology than I am and previews some really cool technology that’s coming out that will be real game-changers if you use a video camera.
