Endurance Insights – Our forum for Cyclists

You’re putting in the work. But endurance training can leave you with a lot of questions.

Am I training hard enough? Am I training too hard? Why am I not getting faster? How much recovery do I need? What should I do when life gets in the way of my training?

The Simple Endurance Coaching blog is here to help answer those questions.

Each article tackles a real training problem faced by cyclists, runners, and endurance athletes and offers practical, science-based guidance you can use in your own training.

Train Smarter. Keep Improving.

You don’t need more training information. You need help figuring out what matters for you. Here you’ll find practical advice about endurance training, intensity, strength, recovery, nutrition, racing, and the challenges of staying fit and competitive as you get older. Whether you’re preparing for a gravel race, racing cyclocross, running trails, or simply trying to become a stronger endurance athlete, the goal is the same: Help you understand your training, make better decisions, and find out how good you can become.

Will Gravel Fitness Help Your Cyclocross Season? Why You Don’t Have to Start Over

You’ve spent all spring and summer training for gravel. Now cyclocross season is only a few weeks away, and you’re...

How to Measure Your Gravel Cycling Training Progress

You have been training consistently. You are riding four or five days each week. You are doing your intervals. You...

Why You’re Not Getting Faster After 40 (And What Your Body Actually Needs)

You aren’t getting slower because you’re over 40. You’re getting slower because your body is asking for something different than...

The Mental Game of Gravel: How to Keep Going When the Race Gets Hard

At some point in a long gravel race, you’ve wanted to quit. Your legs felt terrible. Nothing was feeling good....

When Gravel Motivation Gets Muddy: How to Keep Training When You Don’t Feel Like It

Gravel racing is supposed to be fun. That might sound obvious, but it’s easy to forget when the alarm goes...

Mastering the Climb: How to Train, Prepare, and Execute Faster Hill Climbs

by Coach Anthony James Great climbers aren’t just strong, they’re prepared, precise, and efficient. Hill climbing success comes down to...

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The Athlete’s Compass Podcast

Endurance training can get complicated. We help make it simpler.

The Athlete’s Compass explores the questions everyday endurance athletes are actually asking: How should I train? Am I doing enough? How do I get faster? How should my training change as I get older? What does the latest research actually mean for me?

Coach Paul Warloski and exercise physiologist Dr. Paul Laursen combine coaching experience, sports science, and practical advice to help cyclists, runners, and triathletes make better training decisions.

From Zone 2 and VO₂max to strength, recovery, nutrition, race preparation, and the mental side of endurance sport, each episode is designed to help you understand what matters, what you can ignore, and what you can actually use in your training.

Train smarter. Understand why. Keep improving.