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Angus Nelson

Angus Nelson

Angus is a cofounder of Stryd. He has trained for and raced every distance from 50 meters to Half Ironman & is pushing the run power revolution forward!

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You have the time, but do you have the motivation?

"I love to run. It is one of the few things that I do not need to look for motivation. I don't look outside and say, 'Oh gee, I have to go out

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Personal records can be had whether the starting gun fires or not

"Stryder" Lukáš didn't let the disappointment of a cancelled race day stop him from running a personal best at 5K and 10K today: === 10k time trial today Even though my race was canceled/

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You should practice a runner's most important skill every day

“In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will

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The stars align for one perfect race day per year

If your early season races have been cancelled already... You only have one chance at a good race performance this year. This may be an uncomfortable truth for some of you, but it

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How to figure out if the latest training fad works for you

Every few years there is a news cycle that trumpets the performance benefits of high intensity interval training (HIIT) or some other flashy magic workout. The running media picks up on the cycle

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The entirely free method that fast runners use to recycle more energy

The running industry is on an endless hunt for shoes that recycle more and more energy. And we, as runners, are more than happy to bust out our wallets to buy the latest

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A way to tell if you are racing on "cold" legs

How important is mastery of your warm up routine? If you follow some of the fitness gurus that I follow, they would argue that warming up is useless. They argue that you would

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One way to know if you will hit the wall before race day rolls around

Here is an all-too-common but entirely preventable problem that I used to encounter over and over again in my training: Missed warning signs Now that I look at so much running data and

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How to stop struggling to understand the data your GPS watch is spitting out

One of the biggest fears that runners express to me is that they are afraid to collect even more data. They cannot manage the data they have already so the idea of "more"

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How runners without a creative bone in their body can create beautiful works of "art"

For all the bored runners out there that believe they have already mastered how to structure their training, prepare for races, and generally think they have nothing "new" to explore training-wise, some of

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The mistake of the fastest runner who never won a race

One of my favorite ever running quips is: The fastest runner rarely wins on race day. I can't remember where I first heard it and it is impossible to count how many times

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A pacing lesson from a race that will talked about for the next 100 years

There is one race that will be talked about for at least the next 100 years and is guaranteed to be talked about long into the future as long as humans keep running.

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How some Olympic Trials marathoners came prepared for one of the hardest races of the year

The Olympic Trials were this past weekend and all I could think about was how a lot of athletes could have had a better day if they had paced their race better. The

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Demystifying running metrics to turn you from a data skeptic into a a data addict

Which category of data-driven runner do you fall into? 1. The Data Addicted Runner The data addicted runner is strapping every gadget on their body as possible and enabling as many features as

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You don't need to lead a race from start to finish to place highly

"Stryder" Kevin showed that you don't have to lead the race from start to finish to still place highly: === I had my first 1st race recently with Stryd after only a few months

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The problem with sticking in the pack

Whenever I watch an elite marathon race or any endurance race, I often see all the top runners sticking together in a single pack. This is a smart strategy for short races like

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Eliminating boredom from the easy miles of early season training

Here is one thing that used to get on my nerves... Early Season Training The ease and monotony of early season training always seemed to be a necessary evil that I had to

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The one running skill you never think you need... until you do

Here is an "anxiety inducing" race day situation I have been in more often than I would ever like to. It happens nearly every time I make the final turn into the last

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Are you dreading today's run? Here is how to take the edge off...

I nearly always schedule my runs for the afternoon after 4PM. It has been a habit of mine for years. This can lead to two things: 1) A day full of excitement as

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Preventing sneaky stress accumulation

There is an innocent mistake I see runners making that nearly doubles how stressful their easy runs are. It is important to avoid mistake this if you are doing any kind of structured

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Distance or duration?

Here is a funny thing about running: Some of the best training plans are prescribed nearly entirely in terms of duration. But, we only race according to distances. (i.e. Hardly anyone does

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How I inject some excitement into that void between races

Like many of you, I am on a quest for running excellence. My quest has been going on since I first started running over a decade ago. There has been moments that have

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Here is a better way to compare fitness, no race times required

What is the best way to see how you stack up against other runners? The typical answer is to compare race times with other runners. That can be a pretty good solution, actually.

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How much does wind impact your 5K time? | The Secret of Running

How much does wind impact your 5K time? Hans and Ron, authors of The Secret of Running, had a quantitive look. They looked at how three headwind and tailwind speeds affect an 18-minute

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You only get half as much back as you put in

Here is an important fact about the wind: The cost of overcoming air resistance increases at a non-linear rate. That means that every additional "mile per hour" of wind/air resistance costs more

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