It’s normal to have dips in motivation, but if you’ve been consistently tired, your fitness has plateaued, or you’ve been more irritable than usual, you may have cycling burnout. How does cycling burnout happen? Burnout doesn’t show up overnight. It builds. You push a little harder than usual. You skip a rest day because you…
Building your running mental toughness can encourage you to lace up your running shoes, dig deep in the final miles of your half marathon, and can even prevent you from being too hard on yourself. But how do you build your mental toughness for running? In this post, we’ll break it down into four simple…
Improving your cycling performance requires you to suffer a little. If you want to create a consistent habit, finish a long ride, or pursue any cycling goal, you must learn to tolerate both fatigue and discomfort. And that requires some training—physically and mentally—outside your comfort zone to build and improve your cycling fitness. And just…
You finished a hard run yesterday. Today your legs are heavy and you’re standing there debating, ‘do I go or take the day off?’ Rest day or easy run? How tired are you — really? If the answer is “very,” rest. Have your last few runs felt like a slog? One bad day is normal….
It doesn’t matter if it’s your first half marathon, or your 10th, your half marathon will test both your endurance and your mettle. Are you ready for it? Teach yourself to handle the discomfort No runner truly enjoys being in pain. The pain is merely something you must handle to get to the good stuff—the…
This race didn’t go as planned. What next? Let it all out You get to be mad, disappointed, frustrated after working for weeks to train for your race. mad, feel disappointed, get frustrated, and so much more. You have every right to after working diligently to train for your race. Write it down All of…
You’ve done the work. The long runs are behind you. Now you’re running less and somehow feeling worse. Restless. Irritable. Convinced you’re losing fitness by the hour. One day you’re ready. The next you’re wondering why you signed up. That’s taper madness. And it doesn’t matter if it’s your first marathon or your fifth —…