Some weeks, the problem isn’t motivation or fitness, it’s fatigue that comes from everything outside of running. Long days at work, physical labor, poor sleep, and mental stress all show up
It’s easy to track everything in running. Pace, heart rate, cadence, elevation, training load, sleep, recovery scores, the list keeps growing. Early on, I thought more data meant better decisions. What I
Long runs are where most marathon training goes right, or quietly falls apart. It’s rarely fitness that ruins them. More often it’s chafing, stomach issues, dehydration, or small mistakes that compound
Missing a run used to stress me out more than any workout. During training for my first and second marathon, skipping even one session felt like a failure. I’d replay it in
One of the hardest parts of marathon training isn’t knowing what workout to do, it’s knowing when to actually do it as planned. Fatigue is constant when you’re balancing training