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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.
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 →Your adaptation is fine. Your recovery is the constraint.
The story that masters athletes stop responding to training is wrong. What actually changes is the price of the stimulus — and the tissue that pays it. A look at deload cadence, maintenance floors, and why RPE can't see the thing most likely to end your season.
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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