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Black Cats Run

Tristan Black-Ingersoll

Endurance sports are our most unrecognized Orwellian dystopia - weakness is strength, strength is weakness. Have athletes just reached a point where simplicity is truth? Or are we too willing except structures which see the few succeed and the many fail? Maybe those are two sides of the same coin. Black Cats Run takes a new view of the puzzle of individual endurance sport. It combines ideas from history, psychology, physiology, cultural anthropology, training methodology understand the experience

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128:19

Who's On First - Ep. 2

Black Cats Run ·

2023/09/24

Here comes a sequel. We learn through the feedback we are given as we first become educated about what it means to exercise. Many of us are victims of a no pain, no gain ethos which is pushed by all the armchair athletes. Some people succeed with this approach, but we only see that outcome because we compare apples to apples. How to we interpret the different methods of cueing with lead us to focus on certain forms of engagement with training as productive? Can we change our cues and find better

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43:21

Let's Test Lactate

Black Cats Run ·

2023/09/22

Lions and tigers, and glycolytic output oh my! We can't put out all the intellectual bags of dog poo burning on the mental porches of endurance athlete's around the world. But here's a forty-five minute fire extinguisher's worth. The specific nature of lactate as relates to what can be established through testing as well as the best strategy to test is the focus of this short(ish) episode. You can also check this one out on youtube complete with the visuals. Maybe if we dump a bucket of water

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111:21

The Speed Merchant

Black Cats Run ·

2023/09/18

Speed merchant. Another episode inspired by a great question from a listener. What does speed mean for endurance athletes and how do you develop speed. We discuss strategies to develop speed, as well as how to assess if you have sufficient speed and then how that should influence your training strategy. We ruffle feathers by saying even Ironman Triathletes need to be able to run a great mile. Turns out, speed is easy - literally. But if you do it the wrong way, well, speed kills.

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95:39

Seeing Is Believing

Black Cats Run ·

2023/09/15

Don't blink, you might miss it. Revelatory training theory break through? First stages of a post modern dystopian rewrite of The Sting? Only one way to find out. Listen up. In this episode we outline the concept of the Aerobic Calculator. Good training should be a measured progression, not a repressed level of performance that suddenly and magically manifests in a mind blowing performance in the race. We explore the concept of proper threshold training, the history and context of the current

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100:11

Lead Into Gold

Black Cats Run ·

2023/09/12

The real and the really real. When we train we are engaged with a system of symbolic meaning. Training that was once innovative and original is reduced to ritual practice and we lose sight of it's meaning. Instead of looking at what the symbolic value of training practice is we should look for evidence to validate or replicate the supposed claims of efficacy. Otherwise we waste our time turning lead into gold.

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90:25

Behind the Curtain

Black Cats Run ·

2023/09/08

The Wizard of Oz. The wizard can give you many things, maybe even everything. Master of mysteries, purveyor of promises. What's lactate? What's maximum lactate steady state? what's the best way to get faster? The less we understand the more we know. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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57:08

Who's On First - Ep. 1

Black Cats Run ·

2023/08/23

Hard to know what it all means when everybody says the same things meaning different things. In this episode we introduce the problem of failing to teaching athletes the right cues, how most of us do not know how to identify the right training intensity benchmarks and how this relates to training design in the form of periodization. The most important factor of training is the athlete, not the workout.

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52:29

Make A Map

Black Cats Run ·

2023/07/24

"If recovery isn't real then how do I even train anymore?" You scream into the abyss of the night that surrounds you. The night as cold, dark, unfeeling, just like the eternal darkness of the universe as it expands into the unknown beyond the borders of our big bang bubble. Well. Here are some suggestions for how you can design your training.

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74:31

Recovery Isn't Real

Black Cats Run ·

2023/07/11

Train Hard. Then what? Lie and wait for the gods of athletic achievement to bless you with the virtues of Milo of Crete? How is that we emerge from training, something that makes us tired, with the ability to get less tired from physical stress in the future? Recovery is often cast as the essential element that makes training possible. In this episode we consider whether or not recovery is an ingredient to training success. It turns out that if you need to recover from you training then you are

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70:28

Red, Yellow, Green - Part II

Black Cats Run ·

2023/06/20

Build it back up. There's a place for Intervals in our training. We just have to change their identity. Maybe we need to change the way we identify as athletes a little bit to make space for something new. Eventually the light will turn green.

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67:32

Red, Yellow, Green

Black Cats Run ·

2023/06/19

Green means go. Intervals, the true path to Valhalla. Nothing is more universally accepted as the hallmark of glory in training culture as the interval session. To become one of the initiated you must destroy yourself eight times with a sixty second recovery. Yellow means go faster. We discuss the impact and the structure of intervals in our culture and suggest the best definition of intervals. How should intervals actually be used, and how do we make decisions about what constitutes good

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65:14

The Bee's Knees

Black Cats Run ·

2023/05/28

Entropy. Eventually it will mean the end of the universe. It also might tell us something about the body's response to training. How important is the mass of an athlete when we talk about athletic achievement. Is it better to be small? Or is it better to train effectively. Entropy doesn't mean your inevitable demise in this episode. It might actually be your first step toward transcendence and enlightenment. Failing that, maybe it will help you get in better shape.

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63:52

The Immersion Complex

Black Cats Run ·

2023/04/22

Vox Populi, Vox Dei. Fears are motivating. How do we make decisions about how to train? Is there strength in consensus? We discuss a different strategies to reach conclusions about what our best practices for training should be. The voice of the people is always very close to madness.

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69:48

Paradox of Intensity

Black Cats Run ·

2023/03/25

Grandfathers, the ultimate proof of concept. We can't travel back in time and make up for the bad races, but can we use what we've learned over time to make the next ones better? We talk about paradoxes, pain, patrilineage, how to use LT, and how to lay an egg between the start an finish line of your local half marathon. Don't work, the Grandfathers are all safe in the end.

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104:39

Deus Ex Machina - Ep. 3

Black Cats Run ·

2023/03/17

Charles Darwin had not idea the bomb he was letting off when he published On the Origin of Species. Are we are the mercy if natural selection when we fail to achieve athletic greatness? Or is Darwin's observation that species survive because they have remarkable capacity to adapt, and our issue is the cultural logic that we have latched around our own wrists like chains? In this episode we explore the explanations for why some people perform well while most of us are locked in the eternal internal

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77:37

At The Beach

Black Cats Run ·

2023/03/11

No Pain No Gain. Take you folding chair, a towel, sunscreen, a sandwich, and just chill out. Feel the sand between your toes. Nobody is rewarding your masochism more than you. We talk about how to find the equilibrium of training and how to design workouts from the perspective of where we are trying to get and not what we are trying to accomplish. Train, don't strain.

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67:36

Into the Dark

Black Cats Run ·

2023/03/08

Into the shadows, where the self doubts grow. On this episode we get a little bit more introspective, a little bit more self-reflective. If something goes wrong one time, is it time to quit and run away? How can we take a step back and reassess? The more we know, the less we blame ourselves. Marathons, comparing training to races, and anticipating the pop culture surge of Lactate Threshold training. Here we go. Take a trip with me, into the dark.

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81:06

Deus Ex Machina - Ep. 2

Black Cats Run ·

2023/03/03

Ghost Hunters. There's a specter here, your training log is haunted. How do we determine what is right when we are think about things we don't understand? We consider the implication of the relationship between audience and performance and the ways in which it constrains our capacity to create independent verifications. Raise a glass to Charles Darwin while we're here. Can evolutionary deduction help us reevaluate the structure of hierarchy? Rocks and sponges? Are the outliers the majority? Wait,

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72:01

Big Ring Bennett - Ep. 2

Black Cats Run ·

2023/03/01

In search of something. What does it mean to be an athlete? How do our ideas of what productive evolve over time? In this episode we discuss the difference between athleticism as an expression of fitness versus an act of inherent skill. How does the need to be an athlete and feel confident make it harder or easier to engage with the process of training and improvement over time? Let go to move forward.

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75:24

Make Me Fast

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/28

Just tell me the workout. Ok, secrets wide open. Here's the sauce. Whoosh!

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