July 2026

Marathon training is demanding in ways that are easy to underestimate before the weekly mileage starts stacking up. The runs get longer, the recovery demands increase, and somewhere around week eight or nine, the nutrition piece that you’ve been managing loosely starts to show its cracks. You’re getting home from a long run with nothing…

VO2 max is one of the most searched terms in endurance sport, and also one of the most misunderstood. It gets treated as a fixed genetic ceiling — the number your smartwatch estimates and either validates or discourages you with — rather than what it actually is: a trainable physiological variable with significant room to

The phrase “food as medicine” gets used constantly in wellness content and rarely gets explained in a way that means anything specific. It shows up in supplement marketing, in social media health content, in the context of elimination diets and detox protocols, attached to advice that ranges from genuinely evidence-based to entirely unsupported. As a

Eating disorders are among the most misunderstood mental health conditions. They are widely assumed to be about vanity, about thinness, about young women who’ve taken dieting too far. None of those assumptions hold up against the clinical reality — and each of them contributes to the gap between how many people are affected and how

Intuitive eating gets described in a lot of ways that aren’t quite right. Eat whatever you want. Ignore nutrition. An excuse to stop trying. Anti-health. It also gets described in ways that are too simplified to be useful — just listen to your body, eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full — as if

If you’ve searched for a marathon training plan, you’ve already found dozens of them. Hal Higdon. FIRST. Hansons. Nike Run Club. They vary in weekly mileage, long run progression, and how much speed work they include, but they share one consistent gap: they tell you almost nothing about how to fuel the training they’re asking

Every runner standing at a marathon start line wants to run faster than they did last time. For some that means breaking four hours. For others it means qualifying for Boston. For first-timers it means finishing strong rather than surviving the last six miles. The goal is different but the question is the same: what

You finished the long run. You stretched, you showered, you sat down on the couch and didn’t move for twenty minutes. And then — if you’re like most runners — you either grabbed whatever was easiest and closest, waited until you felt genuinely hungry again, or skipped a real meal entirely because your appetite had

Most runners who start training for a marathon put serious thought into their mileage plan. They pick a training schedule, map their long run progression, figure out when they’ll do their speed work. The nutrition side tends to get treated as an afterthought — something to figure out closer to race day, or something covered

The runners who consistently have their best race seasons are almost never the ones who woke up in January and decided to sign up for something. They’re the ones who treated the months between seasons as part of the preparation — who made decisions about which races to run, when to build and when to