A to Z Running

Influences on Performance

We are tackling some of the strangest research yet! What do environmental factors have to do with performance? Do the pace lights in pro track racing actually help? How d

Odd & Interesting: Size Matters

Changing certain subtle physical details about something alters behavior. It’s not mind control, and it’s not magic. Even though it feels like both. The question we are g

Odd & Interesting Research

There’s a lot to be discovered in the world of interesting facts and uncommon research, so in the spirit of the recent 1 mile world record, we’re going to be talking abou

Guaranteed Success

For any runner interested in finding success, the essential question remains “How do I get better?” Setting aside all the possibilities in the details, there remains one

The Space Between

When endurance athletes are given challenging cognitive tasks before running, what happens to their time to fatigue score? When college athletes are competing in a sport

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Every runner since the beginning of time has needed the occasional reminder to take the extra time to do those strength and mobility exercises. This is that reminder beca

The Top 3 Workouts

We are taking you back to the roots, the core foundation of what quality training means and looks like. To begin this exploration, we start where we spend the most amount

Eat Your Vegetables

What does recent world champion Jimmy Gressier have against chocolate, and what deep meaning was he embedding in this seemingly whimsical interview? We think we know, and

7 Ways to Be Better

It’s time to figure out how to be better, and a quick look at a small handful of research-backed strategies is just the ticket we need. It’s not about elaborate or whole-

Just a Little Nudge

This week on AtoZrunning: If we told you that we could predict exactly why you have difficulty making those big behavior changes you wish you could make, would you belie

Chase That Feeling

(The sound problem has been fixed!) Runners talk about treadmill misery and loathing the indoor training season, but is it possible that the reason it’s so rough is beca

When to Ditch the Watch

Once upon a time, you went for a run with some friends and that one friend had one of those fancy new watches–they called them GPS watches. Remember that? Remember how si

A Wicked Environment

Running is a wicked environment… at least as David Epstein defines the term in his 2019 work Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. In today’s episode, we

The Unbreakable Rule

If I see one more time a headline about how everyone sets new year’s goals and quits by February, I’m going to quit the internet! And yet, I was chatting with another run

Go Hard or Chill Out?

We’re going to get practical and talk about the key difference between running hard and running easy and when we should be doing both. You’ve heard about the 80/20 rule,

Turn Down the Temperature

When the pressure is high and expectations abound, performance can suffer. But it doesn’t have to. Even for runners who feel like race-day pressures are insurmountable, c

Learning to Love the Pain

In a recent conversation with other runners, we fell to discussing the challenges of digging deep or pushing harder or hurting a little more. Given the close connection t

What did you expect?

Just how important are mindset and expectations on physiological experiences? Research has suggested that the connection is so significant that a person can literally cre

Runners Need to Stop

In a world constantly battering us with the new–new ideas or technologies, new workouts or training approaches–it becomes that much more important for us to seriously con

The Most Important Thing to Know

What is the most important thing every runner needs to know to realize our dreams? As we continue our series on rules to realize your dreams, we tackle #6: Get Knowledge.