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Black Cats RunAuthor: Tristan Black-Ingersoll
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. Language: en Genres: Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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The Blood and the Rain Chapter Nine "The River"
Episode 5
Saturday, 13 December, 2025
Chapter 9, "The River" explores the relationship between imperialism, post-colonialism, the regulation of voice, and the construction of modern endurance sports science and theory.Rather than treating physiology as a neutral body of knowledge, this chapter examines how authority in endurance culture is produced, protected, and enforced. It traces how certain ways of speaking about the body came to count as scientific, while others were dismissed as subjective, anecdotal, or unserious. The result is not just a training paradigm, but a hierarchy of legitimacy that determines who is allowed to speak, what kinds of experience are trusted, and which explanations are permitted to stand.Chapter 9 situates endurance science within a broader historical pattern. It draws parallels between imperial systems that centralized knowledge and erased local understanding, and modern training cultures that privilege abstraction over perception. Metrics replace narrative. Thresholds replace judgment. The athlete’s internal experience is tolerated only when it confirms the model, and discounted when it challenges it.This chapter argues that the dominance of mechanistic endurance theory is not simply the result of better evidence, but of institutional convenience. Reductionist models scale well. They credential easily. They produce authority that can be exported, monetized, and defended. What they do not do well is account for regulation, variability, or lived reality.
