Just starting to dig

At the running workshop we talked just briefly about the underlying science behind CrossFit Endurance training versus the more traditional marathon training model. CrossFit Endurance posted a link to an article today which argues for a training plan heavy on high intensity, but what most interested me was that this website, www.zone5endurance.com, maintains a very large and growing list of references. There is an organized bibliography of studies looking at high intensity training for endurance, along with links to the abstracts and sometimes commentary from the website's maintainers. This is good stuff! http://www.zone5endurance.com/?page_id=144

In the near future I plan to start outlining some of the endurance training plan more. In the meantime, those of you who just attended the workshop, keep plugging away at your running homework. For those of you who didn't attend the workshop, I'm going to start posting the study guide material in chunks, so stay tuned.

Finally, I'm looking at the Philosopher's Way trail race (15k and 7k @ Carolina North, not announced yet) to be our next big CrossFit Local team event-this is pretty much our "home" trail, so we need to prepare!