Yearly Archives :

2019

Adding A Training Camp to Your Season

Patrick McCrann
Being an endurance athlete is a constant struggle to meet the requirements of your training with the constraints that your life presents. From available time to physical health to geography, your top priority is finding a way to be consistent in spite of these challenges.  After all, we don't all live and train in sunny [...]read more

How To Use Resting Heart Rate Metrics To Your Advantage

Mariah Bridges
Utilizing Resting Heart Rate Metrics In the category of training metrics, we might be drastically undervaluing Resting Heart Rate (RHR). You likely use some form of software to track your training, but few of us have a visceral connection to that data. Tracking your RHR is a chance to get a peek as to how [...]read more

Run Interval Training

Mariah Bridges
Running Intervals and Intervals with Power Run Intervals are a critical part of building fitness into your season, but like any "training tool," you need to use them correctly for maximum benefit. Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P talk intervals. Key Talking Points: When intervals matter the [...]read more

The Key to an Endurance Lifestyle

Mariah Bridges
The Key To An Endurance Lifestyle We all have that one unique story of how we started our endurance lifestyle journey. Very rarely do we come across someone who has started as young as EN Athlete Julia Herrmann. This week on the Endurance Nation podcast, we dive into Julia's recent Boston Marathon race. Obviously, we [...]read more

Road To The Boston Marathon

Mariah Bridges
The Start of the Boston Marathon Journey What does it look like to qualify for the Boston Marathon? Well, we highlight the retrospective journey often, with a lot of our athletes making the commitment along their endurance lifestyle adventures. However, we rarely showcase an athlete at the beginning of their quest, until today! Meet Colin [...]read more

How to Handle Large Endurance Volume Blocks

Patrick McCrann
Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation for another weekly endurance podcast. This week you will learn about how to use a training camp to improve your overall fitness. Endurance training is all about managing the balance of work and fatigue to create adaptation. Walking this line safely is not an easy thing to do, but [...]read more

Planning a Solo Camp Endeavor

Patrick McCrann
Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach Patrick covers how to best prepare for a solo training camp endeavor. Strategic volume is a critical component of the Endurance Nation training approach and as a lead up to a race or major goal, it can be a make or [...]read more

The Ins and Outs of Cycling Camps

Mariah Bridges
Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P interviews good friend and partner Paul Wood from Black Bear Adventures Paul helps with our annual Blue Ridge Cycling Camp and has really made a difference. Paul's personal background as an athlete and service-oriented mindset really change how we as a [...]read more

Endurance Coaching Process Behind The Scenes

Mariah Bridges
Endurance Coaching Process Behind The Scenes There are a lot of aspects of coaching someone to endurance success and the endurance coaching process is not always the same for athlete to athlete, gender to gender, goal to goal..... or, is it? This week Mariah interviews Coach Patrick to peel back the coaching curtains and find [...]read more

Three Critical Boston Workouts

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It is almost Boston Marathon time, but there are still some critical workouts you need to achieve before you toe the line in Boston. Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach Patrick dissects the Boston Marathon training cycle. While you might already be peaking, it's never too late [...]read more