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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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90:06

Deus Ex Machina - Ep. 1

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/24

Plot, what an inconvenience. The struggle of others, also inconvenience. What do both of these have in common? A convenient solution. We can simply answer the disparity between the few who can and the few who can't by saying that's how it is. We explore the possibility that our structure of success as the exception as failure as the norm is simply a product of a willful cultural construct. Our love a tragety and a romanticization of the futile quest perhaps biases us to ask the wrong questions,

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80:18

Faith In Poison

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/22

Fifteen years too late to name all the indie bands. Never too late to do the right thing. We talk about how to design a different training mindset. The path to the actionable goes straight through the conceptual. Can we shift away from energy systems and the overly complex view of training? We discuss how to think of training not as a series of stresses to recover from but an environment of adaptive response. We frame how Lactate Threshold is a window to making the differentiation between what's

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73:42

Win Pro Nats - Ep. 4-Finale

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/18

Peaking is overrated, just ask George Mallory. In this episode we discuss how to actually prepare for the women's pro cycling national road race championships once you have reached the target fitness level. It's more about feeling normal and being smart than seeking some sort of elusive and transcendent feeling of fitness. We also talk about how to approach the actual race itself and roll out the pearls of wisdom on how a team could both help or hinder individual success. Tenzing Norgay and Sir

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55:00

Top Secret Guest - Ep. 4

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/15

Lay down the path. Part two of our interview with Paige Kostanecki of ButcherBox Cycling. We go further in our discussion of the fabric of the spaces we seek to navigate. Do people with voice have an implicitly responsibility to think about the implications of that status? Can we see different ways to progress in developing our sense of self? How do we manage the various competing expectations that surround us? There's only one way to truly move forward. One step at a time.

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71:23

High Intensity Trauma

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/12

Fool me once. Imagine a mountain, only it's invisible, but it's there. It must be there because everybody agrees it exists. In this episode we ask if something subtle but critical is being overlooked. Can high intensity training induce trauma response? What if we aren't the problem but the mountain we are trying to climb is a collective hallucination or fantasy? It's important to ask the question if we are ever going to find the answer. Fool me twice ...

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74:55

Win Pro Nats - Ep. 4-D

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/10

Plant a garden. How much can we plan? The unknown needs to be discovered not uncovered. We discuss what are the tools by which we calibrate our training and explore the implications of the best, and worst way, to dial those in. What's the value of wild flowers? We also talk about example workouts and how workouts can really be whatever works out. You reap what you sow.

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55:09

Top Secret Guest - Ep. 3

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/08

Everybody needs a compass. On this edition of Top Secret Guest we talk to Paige Kostanecki of ButcherBox Cycling. Paige is inspiringly authentic, open, and honest in engagement with the experience of being an athlete. She also is very much in tune with the struggle that we all feel sometimes as individuals as we seek to navigate the complex spaces of life. This episode is part one of a conversation that spans a variety of topics related to the experience of the self and the space around us. It's

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76:21

Black Cats Run - Light Bulb Burst - C

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/06

Primary sources, a historians best friend. And, maybe, just maybe, also best friend of the coach and athlete. Do we have an information problem or to do we have an interpretation problem? We present a specific explanation of the mechanism that's behind the concept of lactate threshold, we give historical evidence for it's application by it's most famous, and overwhelmingly misunderstood, proponent who probably never called it lactate threshold. Is there a moral to the story? Maybe it's that it

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80:13

Black Cats Run - Light Bulb Burst - B

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/05

Pain. How do we build our understandings of what makes us better? Is it possible, that we do not have nearly as strong of a sense of awareness of what is making us better as we might think. We continue in our thankless task of drowning horses lest they die of thirst as we further explore what lactate threshold is and it's significance for training and performance. We don't want to train so damn hard, it's ruining us mind body and soul. Or maybe we don't even know what it means to train hard

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88:25

Win Pro Nats - Ep. - 4C

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/03

The Midas Touch. What is going to allow us to reach the level of fitness needed to take home the gold? There's no silver bullets. We need to be adaptable and we need to take it in phases as we progress towards our target. We talk about the strategies that allow different people at different points in their own training to all reach the same fitness target. The notion that there's a simple algorithmic solution to training is so seductive. Imagine, the power to have everything you ever wanted

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46:56

Big Ring Bennett - Ep 1

Black Cats Run ·

2023/02/01

One stone, two birds, you know what to do. Part two of our conversation with Gillian Bennett about her 2023 season is also the first part of our Big Ring Bennett series. Sometimes when you think you have lift you realize you're suddenly up to your knees in mud. Picture a July day when the sun is high in the sky. There are no clouds, but a bronze heat haze sits on the horizon. You sweat even when you stand in the shade. Meanwhile, the lemons start to ripen in their trees. Picture tall glasses

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89:37

Win Pro Nats - Ep. 4-B

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/27

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The champ is back. What does the champ do to be the champ? The champ invents a different paradigm. We set a different framework for conceptualizing targeted a performance. Can achieving a pattern of training by May unlock the shot at a title? If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread they can sure make something out of you.

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74:19

Black Cats Run - Light Bulb Burst

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/26

Lactic Acid, dissolving our muscles and our souls from the inside out. Why don't parrots handout the Fields Medal? When endurance sports try to explain thresholds, they don't. Lactate Threshold and FTP are not the same thing. You're training harder then you need to, and we have proof. Your power meter is useless. There's a paradigm shift in her somewhere, if we can find it. Will we explain thresholds any better than anybody else? There's only one way to find out. Stop tipping cows in search of

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72:45

Top Secret Guest - Ep. 2

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/25

Clearance - top secret. We sit down for part one of a conversation with Gillian Bennett where we look back on her 2022 season as an elite multi-sport athlete. Gillian was 7th and the national criterium championship, 13th and the national road race championship, and mixed in a few marathons including a 2:59 at Boston along the way. She may also be a sleeper agent, we'll try to get to the bottom of that mystery as well as unravel the threads that weave together to form the fabric of her

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91:56

Learn to Fly - Ep. 3 - Finale

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/20

Cold war, nukes, and Coltrane. Can your hear the key changes? We learn how to listen to ourselves. We learn what to do with what we hear Improvisation exists in all spaces of performance, including in endurance sport. How do we shift into that space where not following the plan is the best plan? Improvisation exists in the strange space between fixed pieces of discrete knowledge and the unconscious. If we can get into that space we can learn to fly.

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66:09

Top Secret Guest - Ep 1

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/18

Shhh, it's top secret. Our first ever top secret guest episode is here. Are our mindset and ethos about how we exist in spaces of adversity limiting our ability to develop as competitors and individuals? We welcome an expert in the field of learning and development with nearly twenty years of experience to share with us how developing as a learn is shockingly similar to what we need to develop as athletes. Together we explore the spaces and zones in which our development happens. It turns out School

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69:38

Win Pro Nats - Ep. 4-A

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/13

Achilles, call forth Hector onto the field. Once more we bid you engage in the mighty struggle. How do people win championships? Is it a wild melee? Or is championship performance something that can be controlled or engineered? To perform uniquely we need to do unique things. We talk about the demands of a championship and how to evaluate the process of reaching that level of performance. Take up your helmet and gird yourself in your speed suit.

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86:12

Learn to Fly - Ep. 3-G

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/09

Games of Pain. Gladiators called to the Area. We who are about to die salute you. We provide some evidence that suggests that the blood letting of pain based training is not only unpleasant and discourages us from pursing sport long term but it also maybe is not the most effective model. If there are zones for training how do we actually identify them? We offer an example of zones developed in practice and contrast them with the zones derived from the models. There's a thirty percent jump in

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Black Cats Run - Trailer

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/07

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. Taking a new view of the puzzle of individual endurance sport. Combing ideas from history, psychology, physiology, cultural anthropology, training methodology and more to understand the experience of an

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56:09

Learn to Fly - Ep. 3-F

Black Cats Run ·

2023/01/07

Models everywhere. I am a person not a thing. I am more than my FTP, or my Vdot. Your PR's make me look fat. Was Strava ever really a safe space? Sometimes when we train we're not training because we're training to hard and too easy all at once. What do we do with the kind of variance that we all experience as athletes? It's going to be difficult to find a balance with our variance on the one hand and the rigidity of the expectations of any model we might be applying. Maybe there's a better way

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