The 33Fuel Blog
In this year’s London Marathon, only a handful of runners raced to anything like their potential because their marathon pacing was off.
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Turn your endurance nutrition into a picnic to improve results - and enjoyment - overnight Endurance sports are hard, that is largely the point after all. But there are some areas of dogma attached to distance running, cycling, swimming and triathlon that make the sports we love unnecessarily hard - nutrition falls into this camp all [...]
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No pain no gain right? Well, not exactly. Too much pain, too often is a fast-track to overdoing it and slowing up. Here are the five key overtraining symptoms to look out for Falling asleep mid-lap? Hello overtraining...If you're taking on endurance sports chances are you have a strong go-getting Type A personality streak and, generally, [...]
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When you need to swim, bike and run to the finish line as fast as possible, you need energy. So there’s nothing better - or simpler - than a few energy gels for triathlon. Or so you’ve been told…“If I can just make it to the next aid station. Oh, wait, they haven’t been invented [...]
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Tapering for endurance events is a much-overlooked part of training and is a huge marginal gain available for free to anyone prepared to do nothing. Because doing nothing is exactly what's required to taper for a marathon, ultramarathon, Ironman or other endurance challenge. It sounds easy, but it is in fact really bloody difficult - [...]
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