What Rolling Resistance Testing Actually Tells Us About Tires close up of mountain bike tire tread on dirt. Most tire marketing is designed to make you feel like you're leaving speed on the table. Run this tread compound, this casing, this width, and you'll be faster. The numbers look compelling. The white papers sound rigorous. And then you go ride the tire in actual conditions and wonder why nothing matches what you were promised. I recently sat down with John Karrasch on T

I sat down with Matti Rowe on Training Babble recently to talk through last-minute prep for Unbound. Matti has attempted the race five times and finished four. Last year he crashed in the first five miles and broke a rib. He's going back. I say all of this not to scare you, but to set the tone for what follows. This is not a race that rewards overconfidence. Here's what came out of that conversation, plus what we've been telling athletes in the weeks leading up to race day. T

gels, bars, blocks and a banana Most endurance athletes are consuming more carbohydrate than they need during training and racing. Not by a little. By a lot. The 90 grams per hour recommendation that became standard in endurance sports over the last decade was built on research conducted with elite athletes doing sustained high-intensity work. It got applied to everyone else regardless of size, intensity, duration, or individual metabolism. The result is a generation of athle

In 1896, Vilfredo Pareto noticed that 20 percent of his pea plants were producing 80 percent of the peas. He looked at land ownership in Italy and found the same pattern. He kept looking. It kept showing up. The same pattern shows up in endurance training, and most athletes have it completely backwards. They're chasing marginal gains, new gear, advanced methodologies, optimization strategies, before they've secured the 20 percent of inputs that drive 80 percent of their resul

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