I think there is an argument to be made that Ultrarunning at the bigger events was more fun when we took it 90% serious. Now we have big coaching orgs filling kiddie pools with ice water to dunk their athletes at aid stations. 🤣.

Lets stop talking about training women as women. What does this mean and what is it based on? No one is talking about training men as men. TRAIN AS ATHLETES. If you do this, ovarian hormone profiles will automatically be included, same as every other aspect of your physiology is.

One More Time For The People In The Back 🧵.1) There is insufficient high-quality evidence to confirm or refute universal menstrual cycle phase based responses in [sports]women.This is more than a lack of consensus amongst the scientific community, this is a lack of credible data.

“Does REDs exist?” is the title of a paper we recently published. In this paper we raise some important questions around REDs, that are summarised in this blog and will be explored in more detail in future blogs. Read here:

Those selling fitness expertise should reveal if they’re on hormone augmentation, peptides, etc., and I’ve talked extensively about that. I also think the longevity folks should be up front about their injections of fillers, laser resurfacing, hair transplants, etc.

More trail runners and ultrarunners than ever have worked with coaches, and the number of professional trail running and ultrarunning coaches continues to increase. A statistical look at the growing popularity of trail and ultrarunning coaching services:.

"Even more dangerous than not having a fucking clue about something is to have a piece of knowledge completely isolated from context, without having understood it correctly, and applying it in a fanatical way".By @Recuenco.