Category: Races
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Full Marathon Tapering
The final week before a marathon might feel repetitive, but there’s a reason for that structure — and it works, because it’s biochemically strategic. By standardizing your meals, reducing training volume, and sticking to a sleep routine, you create physiological stability. This helps your nervous system downshift from high-alert training mode into recovery and priming…
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Half Marathon Tapering
A clean taper week plan, based on my full marathon learnings, adapted to a half marathon performance. With focus on low-sugar nutrition to support recovery, manage energy, to help avoid crashes. Joints-friendly, no weird extra activities to keep your body in homeostasis, and race-day ready. RACE Taper Week Plan Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday…
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From 4:11 to 3:42: What Actually Works for a Marathon Performance Leap
A personal case study of physiological reprogramming through pain analysis. How I used pain as a diagnostic tool, not something to ignore or push through emotionally. Injury became data. It shaped my rehab, rewired my training, and built the system I wish I had from the start. Not your wellness influencer. None of that mindless…
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How “Male” Hormones Almost F*cked My Marathon Training One Week Before the Race
12:30 a.m. on a Wednesday I treat my body to tortilla chips with guac in bed (truly, a premium treatment we’re not used to). I feel guilty. Guilty in the way only someone deeply attached to discipline can feel. Or like a sex addict that just betrayed their beloved spouse because they just couldn’t resist…
Sportiva Retreats 