Late to the Start, Still in the Fight
Race day in Istanbul began an hour late and a mile behind. My watch was wrong, my train card was on the sidewalk, and the gun had already gone by the time I reached the corral. Wha
What April Taught Me About Performance Under Real-Life Pressure
In the first half of April, work, family, travel, training, recovery, and race logistics all collided in the same stretch. Istanbul became the clearest test, but the real lesson wa
When Stress Changed the Protocol
A week of jet lag, bad news, disrupted sleep, family meals, and emotional strain forced me to change my training and nutrition approach. Instead of forcing the ideal protocol, I fo
Lounge Isn’t Food: Travel Fitness Field Notes
This week was a test of systems: Zone 2 under travel stress, lounge temptations, transit failures, and one costly timing mistake. The win wasn’t perfection—it was recovery: ste
WbMT Weekly Journal — 2026-W08
A travel-heavy week with low training and fragmented sleep pushed my willpower to the edge—until a muddy walk to Neefapark, a small community bridge project, and a simple decisio
Marathon Training
Base training isn’t “slow season.” It’s injury insurance and performance compound interest—especially when travel breaks your routine.
Mitochondria Don’t Need a Reboot — They Need Better Inputs
Most “stuck metabolism” content is a mash-up of real biology and wishful storytelling. This post separates signal from noise: why plateaus happen, what metabolic flexibility ac
The 3 Types of Hunger (and My 15:30 Trap)
Winter snacking in the home office hits hardest at 15:30. Here are the 3 types of hunger and simple resets that break the loop.
The Week I Stopped Guessing: My VO₂ Baseline, My Zones, and a Very Nervous Fitbit
A busy week… and a smarter kind of progress This week felt overwhelming—because it was. A lot of in-house work during the day, then evenings (Wednesday through Saturday) spent
Six-Pack Challenge — Recomposition Under Constraint (Work in Progress)
This Six-Pack Challenge is still running. The goal hasn’t been abandoned, but the timeline has been recalibrated. Over the last months, abdominal fat has fluctuated up and down u
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