![]() Stamina is your ability to maintain a pace for a long time. What's the purpose of training in the context of improving for these endeavors? Ultimately, you want to be able to complete the distance (or time) either a) at a given pace while making it feel easier or b) to complete the distance faster (or cover more distance in the same time). I know many of my listeners are into pursuits other than ultra-marathons, such as triathlon, swim-run, and even ultra-distance biking, among others. But, that background is not necessary to grasp what’s to come from this series of Science Of Ultra podcast episodes. There are many basic textbooks on exercise physiology meant for college classes and any of those would be suitable for a solid background. There you’ll find that a couple of the books are focused on exercise science. If you don’t have a background in the physiology of exercise, but you’re curious enough to read some books, I have a brief list of books that I recommend on the resources page of. Today, we’re drafting the architecture of training the body. You don’t have to race you may want to take on personal adventures or simply train to improve.Īnd so let us begin to develop How you’ll train. Once you know Why you’re running and What you expect to get out of your running, you can progress to How you’ll train and, possibly, race. Remember that we’re creating your personalized training philosophy in these early stages of plan development, and our working definition of philosophy is ‘a frame-work for making decisions’. ![]() The answers may also change over time so they should be revisited from time-to-time. ![]() Those are critical questions to answer before a complementary training program can be developed because many of the decisions within the program will be directed by those answers, and the answers are unique to you. In the previous installment, we began our exploration of training mind, body, and craft for endurance events by laying the foundation for Why you run and What you expect to get out of it. ![]()
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