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Still racing, just older.
Evidence-forward notes on training through your forties, fifties and beyond — how to sequence a year across disciplines, what actually has to change with age, and why the race next spring and the decathlon at 100 are the same plan.
Why I'm building this
I'm 48, three boys, a job with a weekly flight in it, and three sporting goals sharing one recovery budget. Nothing I could buy held that year. So I'm building the thing that does.
Read →The deload number nobody tells masters athletes
The standard deload advice was written for 25-year-olds. For athletes over 40 the evidence points shorter — and to one rule almost everyone gets backwards. Cut the volume. Keep the intensity.
Read →What pro rugby knows that most amateurs don't
Professional rugby holds strength through a 29-week season on two or three short heavy sessions a week. The structure that makes it work is the one a masters athlete needs — with two numbers shifted.
Read →One discipline leads. Everything else just holds.
The reason your year falls apart isn't a lack of discipline — it's that you're trying to build four qualities at once. Here's the model that lets a masters athlete race a 70.3, a Hyrox and a strength goal in the same twelve months.
Read →Working backwards from a hundred
The Centenarian Decathlon is usually filed under wellness, next to the real training plan. For a masters athlete it belongs in the same calendar — as a set of dated, testable targets that constrain what this season is allowed to cost.
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