On Running
Training, solitude, optimization, and the place running holds in my life.
Running
Running has been part of my life since school cross-country. I now train recreationally and informally help friends with distances from 1500m to 10km, emphasizing consistency, intensity control, and sustainable progress.
I read sports science research in my free time and keep a working collection of ideas. Feel free to contact me if you want to bounce ideas.
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I'm currently exploring what techniques carry over sensibly into my own half-marathon training. The (rather lofty) goal is to hit 1.35, then 1.30 without getting injured (and on minimal mileage)!
I'm also building a private coach-in-your-pocket over Telegram. It pulls context from Strava, intervals.icu, Garmin overnight metrics, and past workouts to answer questions like the training effects of a tempo session, whether I'm fresh enough to push, and what the next quality session should progress.
Writing about running
SCSM Breakdown
A kilometre-by-kilometre post-mortem of my first half marathon.
Some things I've created
- 2.4km Training Guide (top google search result): A comprehensive, detailed guide on acing the 2.4km run test, targetted towards beginners.
- A Notion Database of folks + companies in the sports science industry
- Preventing Overtraining: Achieving Sustainable Growth
- An all-in-one running calculator for zonal training using paces
- Running Made Simple
- A script to sync Strava club activities to Google Sheets, hosted on Heroku
The following people do the best job at explaining physiology concepts on Twitter
- Dr Scott Carlin (physical therapist, strength exercises for runners)
- Brady Holmer (author of Physiologically Speaking newsletter)
- Daniel Rowland (sports science research)
- Stephen Seiler (physiology specialist)
- Alan Couzens (physiology specialist / dev)
- Inigo San Milan (physiology)
- Marco Altini (founder of HRV4Training)