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How Gustav Iden Trains (and Why His Season Builds Slowly)
Gustav Iden ran the fastest marathon at Kona 2026 to finish second. How a rolled ankle, a slow build and a few threshold sessions shaped his season.
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How Julie Derron Trains (and Why She Runs Without a Watch)
Julie Derron took third at Kona 2026 on her debut, running the marathon without a watch. How Brett Sutton's athlete races by feel, and how to learn it.
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How Laura Philipp Trains (the Late Swimmer Who Rides and Runs Back)
Laura Philipp learned to swim at 24, left the Kona 2026 water 30th and 8:34 down, and still finished second. Why adult swimmers should test their CSS.
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How Matthew Marquardt Trains (Kona Podium on 20 to 25 Hours a Week)
Matthew Marquardt finished third at Kona 2026 while still in medical school. His coach steers every session by lactate threshold, not by power or pace.
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How Taylor Knibb Trains (and Why She Let the Leader Go in Kona)
Taylor Knibb won Kona 2026 in 8:36:29 a year after overheating 3 km from the line. The lesson: race your own limits, not the athlete beside you.
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How Vincent Luis Trains (and Why He Won Kona by Letting the Race Go)
Vincent Luis won Kona 2026 on debut, six minutes down off the bike. How a short-course champion learned Ironman pacing, and how to set your own bike watts.
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How Lucy Charles-Barclay Trains for the Heat (and the Hydration Mistake That Cost Her Kona)
The 2023 Ironman World Champion prepares for Kona with a six-week heat block, then lost a Kona lead to a sodium overdose. What long-course athletes get wrong about sweat and salt.
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How Mark Allen Trained (and Why He Ran Slower to Get Faster)
Six-time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen capped his heart rate with Maffetone's 180-formula and watched his pace at that heart rate transform. A formula you can run now.
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How Kristian Blummenfelt Trains (and What He Eats While Doing It)
Kristian Blummenfelt runs the Norwegian method in three sports: lactate-guided thresholds, obsessive measurement, and a carb intake that rewrote the rules.
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BMW Berlin Marathon 2026 Results: Winners, Records and Numbers
Berlin Marathon 2026: Guye Adola won in 2:02:50, Tigst Assefa set a course record of 2:11:04, and 56,000 runners from 162 nations entered the race.
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Advanced Marathon Training Plan: 16 Weeks for Sub-3 Runners
A 16-week advanced marathon plan for 2:45 to 3:15 runners: six runs a week, peak 86 km, 34 km long runs with up to 16 km at marathon pace. Free.
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Beginner Marathon Training Plan: 16 Weeks, Four Runs a Week
A 16-week beginner marathon plan for 4:00 to 6:00 finishers: four runs a week, peak 51 km, long runs up to 23 km. Free, built from your own race time.
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- Intermediate Marathon Training Plan: 16 Weeks to a 3:15 to 4:00 Finish
- Sub-Elite Marathon Training Plan: 16 Weeks, 120 km Peak, 2:20 to 2:45
- Advanced 10k Training Plan: 10 Weeks for 35 to 40 Minutes
- Advanced 5k Training Plan: 8 Weeks for 17 to 20 Minutes
- Advanced Half Marathon Training Plan: 12 Weeks for 1:20 to 1:30
- Advanced Maintenance Running Plan: 50 to 70 km a Week
- Beginner 10k Training Plan: 10 Weeks for Sub-60 and Sub-50 Goals
- Beginner 5k Training Plan: 8 Weeks for Sub-30 and Sub-25 Goals
- Beginner Half Marathon Training Plan: 12 Weeks, Built for Sub-2
- Beginner Maintenance Running Plan: 20 to 30 km a Week
- Competitive 100k or 50 Mile Ultra Training Plan: 13-Hour Weeks
- Competitive 50k Ultra Training Plan: Racing on Trail
- Experienced 100k or 50 Mile Ultra Training Plan: 20 Weeks
- Experienced 50k Ultra Training Plan: Faster on the Climbs
- First 100k or 50 Mile Ultra Training Plan: 20 Weeks on Trail
- First 50k Ultra Training Plan: 16 Weeks on Trail
- Intermediate 10k Training Plan: 10 Weeks for 40 to 50 Minutes
- Intermediate 5k Training Plan: 8 Weeks for 20 to 25 Minutes
- Intermediate Half Marathon Training Plan: 12 Weeks for 1:30 to 2:00
- Intermediate Maintenance Running Plan: 30 to 50 km a Week
- Sub-Elite 10k Training Plan: 10 Weeks for 30 to 35 Minutes
- Sub-Elite 5k Training Plan: 8 Weeks for 15 to 17 Minutes
- Sub-Elite Half Marathon Training Plan: 12 Weeks for 1:10 to 1:20
- Sub-Elite Maintenance Running Plan: 70 to 100 km a Week
- How Eliud Kipchoge Trains (and Why He's Still Out There at 41)
- How to Actually Train Zone 2 (and Not Waste It)
- How to Set Your Power Zones From an FTP Test
- VDOT Explained: How Jack Daniels Turns One Race Into Every Training Pace
- Zone 2 Heart Rate, Explained
- How Every Watch Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (10 Brands Compared)
- How Fitbit Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (HRmax)
- How Matthew Brennan Trains (Five Vuelta Stages at 21)
- How Wout van Aert Trains (the VLamax Fix Behind His Roubaix Win)
- How Enric Mas Trains (Won the Vuelta a Year After Surgery)
- How Therese Johaug Trains (What a Comeback at 36 Actually Returns)
- How Tadej Pogačar Trains (and Why He Got Heavier in 2026)
- What Heart Rate Zone Should You Train In?
- How Apple Watch Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (HRmax)
- How Apple Watch Calculates VO2 Max (Cardio Fitness)
- How COROS Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (HRmax)
- How COROS Calculates Your VO2 Max (EvoLab)
- How Fitbit Calculates Your VO2 Max (Cardio Fitness Score)
- How Garmin Calculates Your VO2 Max (and How Accurate It Is)
- How Polar Calculates Your VO2 Max (OwnIndex and Running Index)
- How Suunto Calculates Your VO2 Max (Fitness Level)
- How WHOOP Calculates Your VO2 Max
- How WHOOP Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (HRmax)
- How Faith Kipyegon Trains (the 1500m Record-Holder From Kipchoge's Camp)
- How Johannes Klæbo Trains (Cross-Country Skiing's Bottomless Engine)
- How Kilian Jornet Trains (and Why He Counts Metres, Not Kilometres)
- How Garmin Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (HRmax)
- How Strava Calculates Your Heart Rate Zones
- How Wahoo Calculates Your Heart Rate Zones (THR, not HRmax)
- How Samsung Galaxy Watch Calculates Your Max Heart Rate
- How Nadia Battocletti Trains (Olympic Silver off 90km a Week)
- How Kasia Niewiadoma Trains (and How She Won on Mont Ventoux)
- How a Fast Age-Grouper Trains on 8 Hours a Week (With a Full-Time Job)
- How Josh Kerr Trains (and How He Finally Broke the Mile World Record)
- How Katie Ledecky Trains (the Most Aerobic Athlete in the Pool)
- How Michael Phelps Fueled 80,000 Meters a Week (and the 12,000-Calorie Myth)
- How Sifan Hassan Trains (One Engine, From 1500m to the Marathon)
- How Alex Yee Trains (the Runner Who Wins Triathlons)
- How Cole Hocker Trains (One Engine, From the Mile to the 5000)
- How Courtney Dauwalter Trains (No Coach, No Plan, No Heart-Rate Monitor)
- How Léon Marchand Trains (Phelps's Coach, and a Stopwatch Instead of a Heart Monitor)
- How Mathieu van der Poel Trains (One Engine, Three Sports)
- How Primož Roglič Trains (the Ski Jumper Who Started Cycling at 22)
- How Remco Evenepoel Trains (the Ex-Footballer With a Legendary Engine)
- How Demi Vollering Trains (and How She Won a Second Tour de France Femmes)
- How Elite Rowers Train (20 Hours a Week for a 6-Minute Race)
- How Marianne Vos Trains (and What Overtraining Cost Her)
- How Jakob Ingebrigtsen Trains (and What the Achilles Injury Exposed)
- How Jonas Vingegaard Trains (and Why He Rode the Giro First in 2026)
- Rowing UT2: What It Is and Why It Builds Your Engine
- Beyond the Numbers: Special Training Intensities, Part 1 (Fatmax to Sweet Spot)
- Beyond the Numbers: Special Training Intensities, Part 2 (Threshold to Sprint)
- Heart Rate Reserve: Better Zones with the Karvonen Method
- Why Your LTHR Zone 2 Is Higher Than Your %HRmax Zone 2
- LT1, LT2, and LTHR: The Lactate Thresholds Explained
- The Coggan Power Zones: All 7 Levels Explained (% of FTP)
- What a Training Zone Calculator Actually Does (and How to Use Yours)
- Managing Training Load: TSS, CTL, ATL and the Numbers That Actually Matter
- The Norwegian Method: Double Threshold Training, Explained
- The 30/15 Interval: The Cult Session That Actually Delivers
- What's a Good FTP (and Watts per Kilogram)?
- Friel's Heart-Rate Zones: 5, 7, and Why Every Platform Numbers Them Differently
- How to Find Your Lactate Threshold
- Finding Your Maximum Heart Rate
- How to Set Your Training Zones (and Actually Use Them)
- How Rémi Bonnet Trains (2,194 Metres of Climbing an Hour)
- How Harald Østberg Amundsen Trains (a Crystal Globe, No Olympic Medal)
- How Quentin Fillon Maillet Trains (Eight Olympic Medals, Every Format)
- How Suunto Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (HRmax)
- How Gesa Krause Trains (a Third European Title, Eight Years Later)
- How Sturla Holm Lægreid Trains (Shooting Straight at 170 bpm)
- How Polar Calculates Your Max Heart Rate (HRmax)
- How Jessie Diggins Trains (Twice a Day, and Why She Calls Food Fuel)