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The trick fast runners use to consistently defy father time with "youthful" performances

Aging is not all that big of an impediment to your goals as a runner. If you look at results at just about any race, you will find runners of all ages running fast times. For example, there are a handful of 60+ year olds running sub-3 hours at the

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What kind of runner will you be a year from now?

A runner's secret weapon is long term thinking. Long term thinking is necessary because running fitness is built about as slow and as gradual as any kind of fitness you can build up. While it may take a long time to build up fitness, that can be viewed as a

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If you want to run but don't know what workout to do, Stryd will help

When you have an unexpected urge to run on a rest day, what workout do you choose to do? Often, the go-to pick is an easy run. This is a great choice as it is a low stress way to satisfy your urge, without disrupting your structured training. However, an

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Fear the runner who has practiced one skill 10,000 times

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee Here is an old quote from a famous martial artist, Bruce Lee. Bruce advocates for the mastery of a single skill through

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Give us 3 runs and we'll show you how hard you can push your next workout

Many runners believe that their primary challenge to getting faster is not working hard enough. They have been conditioned to blame their work ethic for their failures and decide to double down their efforts. This tactic pays off in the short term. But, there is always a limit on how

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Solving the problem of pride vs bravado with the Power Duration Chart

Here is a tough question to answer that involves a choice of personal pride vs bravado. What would you rather have? Option #1: Better Time You just had an admittedly mediocre performance on a sunny and cool day on a fast course that surprisingly still resulted in a personal record

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Why is nobody talking about the new Running Stress Balance feature?

When we released the Running Stress Balance chart to our iOS app last year, we were a bit skeptical that it even worked. Why? We usually hear Stryders singing from the rooftop about how and if our new features are working. That didn't happen with this launch. Instead, the customer

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Obeying the immutable law of stress with Running Stress Balance

Have you ever felt like you are pushing your training too hard but you run anyway because your training plan demands it? Don't you hate it when you finish a run and regret that you even completed it because the resulting stress from the run is more than you expected?

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It is time to brush up on your running history

The next time you are perplexed by how you possibly achieved an unexpectedly great race result or suffered from an unanticipated setback, you will immediately be able think through your training history to jump to the right answer to your question. The new PowerCenter provides you with the tools to

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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 I anxiously await the opportunity to leave my desk and tie my shoes (which is more often

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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 training. If you are doubling the stress of your easy runs, you will be stressing your body

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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 a one-hour race.) Why should we train according to duration but race according to distance? Well, first,

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Robust runners are built with the "My Training" chart

To run a faster endurance race, you need to become more robust to stress. The best endurance runners can finely tune their robustness to stress at a very specific running duration and running intensity. In the example of a marathoner, their body can handle a high intensity for the exact

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Here are the features we took from the old PowerCenter and improved in the new PowerCenter

The new PowerCenter introduces a lot of great new features, like the Running Stress Balance history and a faster, in-depth analysis view. However, we did not want to pull the plug on all the features that you already enjoyed in the previous generation PowerCenter. Instead, we have taken nearly all

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Update your profile to see how your metrics stack up

The new Training Distribution feature in the new PowerCenter compares your Fitness, Muscle Power, Stamina, and Endurance against similar Stryders, grouped by age, gender, and race goal. In order to accurately compare you against the Stryd Community, these three pieces of information must be accurate! Please do the following to

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Introducing the new PowerCenter - New Stryd Power Analysis Platform

The new PowerCenter lets you extract more insight out of your pre-existing running power data in as few clicks as possible. You are going to love this update because you will be: - a smarter data analyst that has fun discovering new insights about yourself in your data - a