What IS that? Breaking Down Different Types of Endurance Competitions
Endurance competitions are a HUGE business, and it can feel like new brands and events pop up on the regular. What are these competitions...
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Faye and Jess
- Apr 25
- 2 min
Avoid Running Injuries with these Tips
Faye Stenning, our Grit Coaching strength guru, recently appeared on Good Day New York to share some tips to run injury-free this spring...
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Faye and Jess
- Mar 28
- 2 min
So you're thinking of signing up for a race....
You want to run a race. You have some ideas, and maybe you’ve even registered. That's great! But...now what? We’ll give it to you...
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Faye and Jess
- Feb 16
- 3 min
Distraction Control: Staying Engaged When Things get TOUGH!
Distractions impact performance by drawing attention and energy away from execution. Though we often think of distractions as external...
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Faye and Jess
- Jan 11
- 3 min
The Trouble with Heart Rate-Based Training
One of the most common conversations we have with the athletes we coach is around heart rate and how to interpret heart rate data coming...
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Faye and Jess
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
Jess's Quick Guide to Cross Training
By Jessica O'Connell, MSc, CSEP-CEP, OLY I get asked questions about cross training all the time, unfortunately because I have more...
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Faye and Jess
- Oct 14, 2022
- 5 min
Nail your Off Season
It’s fall, and racing season is starting to wind down. What now? You’ve worked extremely hard for your fitness and don’t want to lose it,...
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Faye and Jess
- Aug 18, 2022
- 2 min
Fueling for Race Day Performance
If you are what you eat, how do you eat your way to a great performance on race day? A HUGE part of execution on race day is ensuring...
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Faye and Jess
- Jul 2, 2022
- 2 min
The Backup Plan - A Guide for Injured Runners
Injury can be absolutely devastating. When life throws up a "no running" sign, what’s a runner to do? Resilience is one of the hallmark...
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Faye and Jess
- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
It's Taper Time!
“It’s taper time!” Have sweeter words ever been spoken?! After working hard for weeks or months a small break is likely welcome,...
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Faye and Jess
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Mastering Mental Toughness
By Jessica O’Connell MSc, CSEP-CEP, OLY and Faye Stenning BKin. Let’s be blunt - endurance sport generally requires less technical skill...
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Faye and Jess
- Feb 14, 2022
- 5 min
The Art of Training Periodization
Periodization is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the sport and fitness world, but many don’t really know what it is or why it is...
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Faye and Jess
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Schedule Greatness with Polarized Training
As coaches, one of the most common mistakes that we see in new athletes is poorly scheduled training. Often, a desire to “crush” workouts...
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Faye and Jess
- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
So you have a sore knee.....
As the largest joint in the body, the knee is incredibly complex with very important jobs of bearing load and hinging to facilitate...
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Jessica O'Connell
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Chalk Talk - Let's talk about Planning.
I was scrolling through Instagram the other day and came across a captivating post by one of my Dutch competitors, Susan Krummins. She...
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Faye Stenning
- Oct 13, 2017
- 3 min
2017 NBC Season Recap
After coming 2nd in the US Championship Series and 3rd at Spartan World Championships last season, you better believe my goal was to win...
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Faye Stenning
- Sep 27, 2017
- 2 min
Faye's Three Tips for Tahoe
It's the OCR race of the year - Spartan Worlds in Tahoe, California. The event goes down on Sept. 30th, and athletes from all over the...
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Jessica O'Connell
- May 10, 2017
- 3 min
The Scoop on Activation Exercises
Have you ever seen runners do goofy-looking exercises before they begin their training sessions? I’m talking about a seemingly random...
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Jessica O'Connell
- May 1, 2017
- 2 min
Coach Jess Elevates her Training at Altitude Camp
I’m writing this blog in a coffee shop in Flagstaff Arizona, a small city located at an eye-opening 7000ft of elevation. Endurance...
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Faye Stenning and Jessica O'Connell
- Mar 16, 2017
- 3 min
Aerobic Capacity - building on that base
In the off season, you hear all sorts of endurance athletes talking about building up their “aerobic base”, but very little about the...
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