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[mental] Self-Talk in endurance: does talking to yourself actually work?
You talk to yourself during hard efforts. Everyone does. But does it actually help? From Blanchfield's RCT to ultramarathon field studies.
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[data] weather as training data: Retrieving real conditions with ERA5-Land
Your watch temperature is biased by body heat. How to retrieve actual weather conditions during your race using the ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo.
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[mental] Association vs. Dissociation: where should your attention go during effort?
When you run, do you focus on your body or let your mind drift? Forty years of research on attentional strategies in endurance, from Morgan & Pollock to the 4-quadrant model.
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[data] Reading your race physiology
Cardiac drift, TRIMP, cross-analysis of slope and HR, GAP degradation, and the speed-slope-HR heatmap. What Garmin Connect does not compute.
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[science] TRIMP & the fitness-fatigue model: quantifying training load
The Banister TRIMP, the fitness-fatigue model, and the Coggan CTL/ATL/TSB.
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[data] Grade Adjusted Pace: flattening the Mountain
Your raw pace is not comparable across gradients. GAP corrects for slope using the Minetti model, and VAM tells you how fast you actually climb.
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[science] The Minetti Model: energy cost of running on slopes
The 2002 polynomial that powers every GAP calculator on the market. Where it comes from, what it captures, where it breaks, and what has happened since.
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[mental] The Central Governor: does your brain referee your fatigue?
When your head says stop, is your body truly spent? A look at Noakes' central governor theory, at what it explains, where it falls short, and at what perceived exertion really tells us about fatigue in endurance.
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[data] Why GPS lies about elevation ?
Robust slope estimation, uphill/downhill segmentation, and walk-vs-run classification. What the elevation profile alone cannot tell you.
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[data] Anatomy of a trail race: reading your FIT file
From binary file to your first plots: loading, cleaning, and visualizing trail running data with Python.
