Dying to Run, Episode 1: “Thirty-One Symptoms”
Matt Fitzgerald has been a runner for almost his entire life, but his running days ended abruptly in 2020 when he developed long COVID, a post-viral chronic illness that makes it…
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Articles
Training science, coaching, and the 80/20 method — from Matt Fitzgerald and the 80/20 Endurance coaching team.
What Runners Can Learn from Writers (and Vice Versa)
A lot of runners are also writers. The most notable contemporary runner-writer, perhaps, is Haruki Murakami, the celebrated Japanese novelist.
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The Feeling of Ascending
If you’re fluent in English and you’re more than ten years old, you’ve probably used the phrase “I live for” in conversation.
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My Favorite Performance-Enhancing Drug Is . . .
As a music lover, I have paid close attention to research on the effects of music in endurance athletes since I first became aware of it, perhaps twenty years ago.
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There Is Only One Kind of Run
How many different kinds of run are there? Well, it depends on how you define “kind.” If by “kinds of run” we mean run formats, the answer is that there are infinite kinds.
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What If Athletes Treated Pain the Same Way They Treat Fatigue?
Endurance athletes understand fatigue. Why wouldn’t they? Fatigue is the primary limiter of endurance performance.
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The Gift of Parker Valby
Of the 254 athletes who competed in the 2023 NCAA Division I Women’s Cross Country Championship, the one who did the least running in preparation for the event (averaging just…
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Would You Rather Be a Better Athlete or a Better Person? Why Not Both?
You’re standing before a pedestal table with two small bowls resting upon it. In the bowl on the left is a capsule-shaped blue pill, and in the bowl on the right is a red pill.
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Pain and Performance
How a Chance Encounter Blew My Mind and Transformed My Relationship with Pain and Injury Have you ever learned something that instantly validated a whole chunk of your experience…
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Coming Soon: Endurance Mastery
About a year ago, David Warden persuaded me to create an online course that would serve as an athlete-focused companion to the 80/20 Endurance coach certification program.
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