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.

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.

Lead Into Gold

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 of the athlete and search for new ideas to help us grow and develop into the best possible version of our competitive selves. Black Cats Run strips it all back to the studs and offers a new, better way to feel good in training, racing, and, just maybe, in life.

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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 of the athlete and search for new ideas to help us grow and develop into the best possible version of our competitive selves. Black Cats Run strips it all back to the studs and offers a new, better way to feel good in training, racing, and, just maybe, in life.

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Lead Into Gold

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