Tag: running

Science & Health, Sport Science

Train hard and recover harder: why you should take a recovery week

You might believe that the optimal strategy for training for a marathon or other target race is to hit your peak mileage and maintain it for several weeks. By doing this, you’ll make sure to get the most out of your fitness and prepare well for your target race, right? Maybe not. It may have happened that after a period of heavy training load you … Continue reading Train hard and recover harder: why you should take a recovery week

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Sport Science

A scientific perspective of legs strength training for distance running

It is well known that strength training for distance runners provides a number of benefits that should be taken into consideration by both novel and more experienced runners. Primarily, strength training increases your strength and power, which will have a direct impact on your running performance. It also increases your running economy, which means you’ll be able to run faster with the same effort. Finally, … Continue reading A scientific perspective of legs strength training for distance running

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Technology, Tools

GPX Files Distance Modifier: Don’t lose your progress

👉 Has it ever happened that your watch stopped or had ant malfunction during your workout, thus losing part of your activity? Or has it happened that due to a bad GPS signal your watch recorded a shorter distance than your actual one? 🤔 👉 Imagine that, after a maximal effort, you have just broken your 10km PB but your watch only recorded 9.8km, thus … Continue reading GPX Files Distance Modifier: Don’t lose your progress

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Sport Science

The manual of the Elite runner: a review of the state-of-the-art training characteristics

In this post, we are going to review and analyze the training habits and training principles of some Elite World-class long-distance runners. Our goal is to understand what makes those athletes reach such high-performance levels by combining scientific literature and practice-based proven results. Most of the content comes from the paper: The Training Characteristics of World-Class Distance Runners: An Integration of Scientific Literature and Results-Proven … Continue reading The manual of the Elite runner: a review of the state-of-the-art training characteristics

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Technology, Tools

GPX Files Cleaner: Dropping Unnecessary Pauses

👉 How frequently does it happens that your running or cycling activities are interrupted by a red traffic light, the need to drink some water, or simply to wait for your partner to reach you? 🤔 👉 Even if you pause your watch during your activity, thus not recording any distance, it will still continue to record your total time which will be then shown … Continue reading GPX Files Cleaner: Dropping Unnecessary Pauses

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Experiences

Ten advantages of running from home to work

Waking up early in the morning and rushing to our workplace is the reality that most of us face every day. The first step usually consists in fighting against the alarm to get up from bed: if you try to close your eyes after the last alarm ring, you could severely risk losing your battle against your sleep and remaining in the land of dreams … Continue reading Ten advantages of running from home to work

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Technology, Tools

Running Performance Calculator: Altitude, Elevation Gain, and Temperature

👉 Have you ever wondered if you ran 10km at 2000m altitude, how fast would you run the same distance at lower altitudes? How would elevation gain and temperature affect your performance? 🤔 👉 The goal of this running distance calculator is to estimate how your running pace and time would change given different elevation gain, altitude, and temperature. Features References Continue reading Running Performance Calculator: Altitude, Elevation Gain, and Temperature

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