Brown Family Sports Articles
Field notes, filed with intent.
A living dossier from the Brown Family Sports network: evidence-backed field notes on endurance, physiology, and racing smarter — each one written for beginner, intermediate, and advanced runners.
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The Running Performance Profile
Your VDOT isn't one number — it's a curve across distances. Read your speed↔endurance skew, see which kind of athlete you are, and pin every training pace to the shape. With a drag-to-reshape interactive.
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Training in the Heat
Heat isn't only a race-day tax — it's a stimulus you can bank. How to earn acclimatization, gut-train under stress, and get more from an easy run, without wrecking your quality sessions or courting injury.
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The 35 °C Tax
At 35 °C, goal pace doesn't cost you at 5k — it lends you the performance. The ledger of stress debt you sign for invisibly: falling blood volume, rising heart rate, and the gut, kidney and core-temperature reserves you spend without feeling it.
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Heat, Humidity & Weight
Your goal pace on a hot, humid day is a trap. The physiology of evaporative cooling, body mass, and cardiovascular drift — and why you have to actually run slower, from the gun.
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How Ultra Running Cured Cancer
Ultra running puts youngness under load: reserve capacity, stress, metabolism, and the dose that turns damage into adaptation.