Running Explained

Today we are breaking down the Norwegian Singles Method, a training method you may have heard about but want to know more. Look no further.

You may have heard about double threshold training but it’s intensity, higher mileage requirements, and the huge recovery it requires may have been too much and too intense for you to try or maintain. Well Norwegian singles is built for as a more accessible variant.

It may require 3 workouts a week(2 for beginners) but the goal is sub-threshold effort with strict speed limits so you don’t overdo it running too fast in a VO2 max workout. It includes several easy runs every week at a very easy effort and no intensity usually in your long runs. The goal is to add in more intensity 25% of weekly training but at a pace that you can recover from and handle in training. It’s not about blowing workouts out of the water it’s about consistency and building a huge aerobic engine.

I tried to cover all the details I could in here but hit our blog for even more information about Norwegian Singles as we wrote a blog earlier this year.

At the end of the day this is just one training method among many that exist. This post is just here to give you information about it, not to suggest this is how you will PR your next race. But it’s gained a ton of popularity so I just wanted to share some of the information about it.

Yes it stems from other training methods, but at the end of the day it’s something a runner could pick up and follow if they wanted to. I hope you learned some new stuff here, share it with a friend and let us know what else you’d like to hear about.

It’s the summer edition of all of our favorite you’re a runner things. I sometimes feel like this list could go on and on but this is our funny summer shortened version with some lovely photos from Jaci Schuerholz

What would you are that we left off?

Happy Father’s Day to all the Dad’s out there!

For me, I grew up a lot of my life not sure if I would ever be a Dad. Growing up without a present Dad as a child lead me to constantly feel like I wouldn’t know what it was like or how to raise my own kids. I constantly felt like I wasn’t prepared. I know a lot of men constantly wonder if becoming a Dad is something they can do.

However for me becoming a Dad has been the greatest part of my life and I am so thankful. Getting to raise and help grow my two little girls with my wife Kelly has been a dream come true. I learned a lot of lessons in my childhood and they have constantly lead me to know what to do with my own children when the time came.

I spent a lot of my life sad and angry about life with my Dad but as I got older I decided to look at my childhood as what I needed to become the man I am today. I am who I am because of the life I’ve lived and growth comes from being able to accept the life you are dealt and just do your best with it.

So as I spend the day with my amazing kids, my wife, and my mom I am just so thankful that I am who I am. And that I grew up to trust that I could be a good, caring, and supportive Dad to my kids. So they can grow up and know what it’s like to have a Dad who is present in their lives.

To all you Dad’s out there unsure of yourselves I see you. Happy Father’s Day, keep showing up for your children because they are watching you everyday and learning from you and you can do it.