Run News for October 10, 2024

F45 workouts added to 100 million Samsung TVs

45 Training and Samsung have partnered to give Samsung Daily+ subscribers free access to a library of cardio, strength, hybrid and recovery workouts.

The partnership puts F45 Training on all Samsung TVs, with additional fitness content planned for the coming months. The objective is to create a central hub that offers fun and unique workouts to help users achieve personal fitness goals.

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Strava launches AI-powered guidance for athletes

Strava announced Athlete Intelligence, an AI feature that provides personalized insights based on an athlete’s activity data. The feature makes it easier for users to understand performance metrics on a mobile device, so they can get more out of activities. It is available in 14 languages for paid Strava subscribers.

The new feature does not coach athletes directly. Instead, it analyzes and interprets workout data, then transforms complex metrics into simple insights on pace, heart rate, elevation, power and relative effort.

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Don’t expect to live longer

Despite hype about prolonging our lifespans, human life expectancy is actually slowing down. A paper in Nature Aging reported that since 1990, improvements in life expectancy have decelerated as the advances in public health and medicine that increased human life expectancy approach their optimal impact.

Following the 20th century’s public-health interventions like clean water, better sanitation, vaccines, drug advancements and surgical treatments, to meaningfully extend human life expectancy would require new strategies that focus on manipulating the biological processes of aging.

That doesn’t mean humans won’t at some point be routinely living into their 100s, but given current trends that won’t happen without improved methods for manipulating the biological processes of aging, which no methods have proven to address.

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8 things nobody tells you about marathons

1. Packet pickup and pre-race parking requires more planning than you think. Sometimes the first challenge on race day comes before the starting line. Navigating packet pickups, which are often hosted at convention centers or arenas and offer numerous distractions can be challenging. Plan ahead!

2. There’s so. Much. Gatorade. It’s likely that your marathon course will have aid stations that offer both water and an electrolyte drink, like Gatorade, Skratch, GU, or Nuun. Gatorade can help replace fluids and electrolytes lost through sweat during a race.

3. You can get caught up in other people’s paces. Nailing your race requires going out at the right pace. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement after the starting gun goes off when morale is high, legs are fresh, and adrenaline wants to forget the plan.

4. Your favorite gels might suddenly taste terrible. If you practiced fueling during your training (which you should), then you probably developed favorite brands and flavors of gels and blocks. By the time mile 18 comes, taste buds may have changed. Consider packing a variety of flavors or consider unflavored gels to help with flavor fatigue.

5. You might want to cry—try to save tears for the finish line. Many runners are caught off guard when a wave of emotions hit them during a race. It’s not uncommon to get teary-eyed while running a marathon. If you get emotional, save your tears for the finish line - you can’t expend any extra moisture since you are already sweating enough!

6. You can ‘hit the wall’ more than once. Hitting the wall refers to the point in a race, usually between miles 18-20, when glycogen stores in your muscles have run dry, and your energy levels plummet. If you’re fueling correctly, you can avoid this, but with all the factors that go into a race like hydration, weather, and elevation, it can still happen multiple times.

7. You might not feel hungry or thirsty, but you should refuel and rehydrate right away. Running 26.2 miles should make you ravenous, but sometimes the last thing you want to do is eat a banana that a volunteer hands you at the finish line. Running can suppress hormones that trigger hunger, tricking us into feeling momentarily full. Plus, your body is working overtime to pump blood away from your digestive system to your muscles and lungs, which can trigger nausea. Greek yogurt, protein shakes, eggs, sweet potatoes, oatmeal, and whole grains are all good food to help refuel.

8. Your immune system might take a hit after. It’s not uncommon to come down with flu-like symptoms in the days following a marathon. That’s because the physical stress on the body triggers a suppression of the immune system. This is what people refer to as the marathon flu, something that 1 in 7 marathon runners experience. Symptoms include a cough, runny nose, chills or fever, or body aches.

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Forget pumpkin spice lattes, it is FKT season

The cool air is perfect for pumpkin spice lattes, long hikes and smashing records. Over the last few weeks, trails across the United States have seen new Fastest Known Times (FKTs) at a rapid pace. New FKTs include a controversial three-hour sprint up the Grand Teton and a 40-day trip through the Appalachian Trail.

A big reason for the many new FKTs is due to the pandemic. There was a big push toward FKTs during Covid so while some went back to running races, many athletes have stuck around the FKT community because they got into it during the pandemic and liked it.

FKTs have become more respected over the past few years—which has made them a target for big-name celebrity runners as well as speedy underdogs who would normally eschew traditional competitions.

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