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In the beginning, you and every other athlete start their endurance sports journey with the same step. But by tracking your day-to-day progress via a coach or coaching app such as Humango, you learn what type of endurance athlete you are and what training works most effectively.  For example, you ma...

It’s a fact of basic human biology: To run faster, you must run fast. Obvious, right? Yet so many runners don't. Instead, you can see them running at a conversational or just above conversational pace around the park or along the greenbelt, happily logging their miles. And that’s great. They’re stay...

Of all the legs in triathlon, the open water swim leg is likely the least practiced element in any triathlete’s training. Compared to a pool, open water swimming presents a unique set of challenges. Finding a safe body of water to swim in, finding someone to swim with for safety’s sake, and acquirin...

If you’re training for your first or fifteenth triathlon, bike ride, or running race, guess what? You’re playing a game. In this game, the winner (that’s you) takes home the satisfaction of personal records. It could be that you ran your fastest marathon, rode your bike farther than ever, or finishe...

For everyone who finishes a big triathlon, marathon, or 100-mile bike ride, completing it is a momentous occasion. If you gave it your all, you’ll probably want to lie down (and maybe cry). Don’t. There’s a proven strategy for recovering from a strenuous endurance event, and it starts as soon as you...

Unless you ran track or swam in high school or college, you likely picked up your sport with no outside group to show you how it's done. And there’s a good chance you still practice it on your own. You log miles and miles on your bike, in your running shoes, or at your local pool. But an elite endur...

We all need motivation to accomplish our endurance sports goals. Heck, we need motivation to wake up each morning. And what is the most effective method to motivate yourself or anyone else to excel? Positive reinforcement. Negative reinforcement, whether it’s an internalized fear of failure or a coa...

Injury prevention never ranks high on an athlete’s reasons for choosing a training program, but it should. Left to our own devices, we humans easily fall into the trap of jumping into an endurance sport by going too fast, too far, and too often, only to succumb to a tweaked shoulder, stress fracture...