Almost all of trackflation is caused by: 1. Shoes 2. Bicarb Why? We see improvements from sprints to distance. And at every level from youth to HS to college to pro. For training, it’s improved. The average coach is better. But it’s not the main thing.

FYI: I started a YouTube channel No script, no notes. Just me talking into a camera. Why this format? In a world where it's easy to appear knowledgable through polish & AI, I want you to see it's just a real guy, riffing with earned knowledge Find it at: SteveMagness

The one 'workout' that is often used by runners that is almost never mentioned in the health space: strides. It's simple. It's not hard. Just adding 6 to 10 x 15 seconds at a faster but controlled pace to the end of your run can make a big difference.

3:45 mile and it’s not even close.

Dying here

introverts pretending to check their schedule before ultimately saying "unfortunately can't make it"

This is only believable in the US, where many people haven't seen a doctor bc they don't have healthcare

After I took a break from running and started back up, my watch now told me I was severely overtraining every single day for weeks on end...even though I was running only 4-5 miles easy. Know when to completely ignore the algorithm.

Marathon finishing time distribution proves one of my biggest leadership lessons: Deadlines work! … even if they are somewhat arbitrary

A 17 year old just won the world indoor championship in the 800. Cooper Lutkenhaus is unreal. I’ve run out of superlatives. What a freaking run, like a savvy veteran taking command and responding to all changers from the front.

WATCH: 17-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus 🇺🇸 becomes the youngest WORLD INDOOR CHAMPION EVER as he wins the 800m gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in 1:44.24. 🥇

One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.

🤯NO ONE SAW THIS COMING… Ethiopia’s Fotyen Tesfay runs 2:10:53 for the 2nd-fastest time women’s marathon time ever…in her marathon debut to win the Barcelona Marathon‼️ That’s 4:59/mile for 26.2 miles.💥

wearing a tuxedo and shaking my head at you for wearing a suit as we pass each other at costco

This is incredible!

Kudos to the Atlanta track club for the quick investigation and for paying out prize money. Love when people do the right thing.

46 YEARS TO THE DAY. GOLD AGAIN. 🇺🇸🥇 #WinterOlympics

Team USA just won its first Olympic hockey gold in 46 years. On February 22. The exact anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Forget the storybook narrative for a second. What happened today is a masterclass in what performance science teaches us about pressure, identity, and legacy. Consider the pressure this team was under. They walked into today carrying 46 years of near misses. The US hadn't won Olympic gold since 1980. They lost the gold medal game in 2002 and 2010...both times to Canada. Last year at the 4 Nations tournament, Canada beat them in overtime. That loss was still raw. The 1980 hero, Mike Eruzione, was in the building. He told the players before the game: "It's just a hockey game." It wasn't. And everyone knew it. Canada outshot the US 41-26. They dominated the second and third periods. Nathan MacKinnon missed an open net. Macklin Celebrini had a breakaway and couldn't convert. Devon Toews had Hellebuyck beaten and somehow the puck stayed out. Then Charlie McAvoy cleared a puck off the goal line with his glove. This was not a dominant performance. It was a team surviving enormous pressure and refusing to break. That distinction matters. How does a team perform under that kind of weight? It starts with the environment the coach creates. Mike Sullivan is now the only American-born coach to win multiple Stanley Cups AND Olympic gold. When he took over the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2015, the team was loaded with talent — Crosby, Malkin, Letang — and completely broken. His description: "There was a dark cloud over the locker room." His first move wasn't a new system or a motivational speech. It was a reframe. He told the team: "There are certain things in life we can control and certain things we can't. We needed to focus on the things that we could control and not dedicate any cognitive resources or worry to things we couldn't control." The team adopted a two-word motto: "Just play." Six months later, they won the Stanley Cup. Tonight, he helped USA do it again on the biggest stage in the world. Sullivan builds what he calls a "safe zone for learning." His video review sessions are explicitly NOT about blame. "We don't want a player walking into our video room on eggshells worried about 'Am I going to be in the film? Is Coach going to yell at me?' It's a game of mistakes. Our responsibility is to learn from them." His guiding principle from his college coach: "Before players want to know what you know, they want to know that you care." It's the difference between compliance and buy-in. Buy-in wins championships. Research backs up Sullivan. Fear-based environments don't produce peak performance. Especially when pressure is already high... They produce anxiety, risk-aversion, and choking. When people feel psychologically safe — when they know mistakes won't be weaponized against them — they take smarter risks, recover faster from errors, and perform better under pressure. We could see it in how Sullivan framed this moment in the weeks before the game. "What an incredible opportunity we have in front of us." Not a burden or expectation...Opportunity. He took the unusual step for a hockey team and kept the team in the Olympic Village instead of a hotel. His reasoning: "The Village is part of the experience." The Hughes brothers roomed together. The Tkachuk brothers roomed together. He didn't try to ignore or isolate them from the pressure. He was embedding them in it, together. And then there's the guy who scored the goal. Jack Hughes came into the Olympics injured, underperforming, slotted on the fourth line. Sullivan moved him up mid-tournament because, as he put it, "We thought by moving him and getting him more ice time, he could impact the game more." Hughes's response: "I believe in myself more than anyone. Wherever I was slotted coming into this thing, I knew I was going to play well." A coach who believed in him when results said otherwise. A player who believed in himself when the lineup said otherwise. Then two teeth got cracked in half by a high stick in the third period. And he scored the golden goal anyway. Everyone's going to remember this as the night the US ended a 46-year drought. On the anniversary. In overtime. Against Canada. But the real lesson is quieter than that. The environment you create determines the performance you get. A safe zone for learning. A focus on controllables. Relationships built on care, not fear. Pressure reframed as opportunity. That's what it looks like when a team is ready, with the right environment and support to tackle the ghosts of history. They built a culture where a team could survive 41 shots and a kid with two broken teeth could score the biggest goal of his life. The 1980 Miracle was about belief overcoming talent. Today was different. Today was talent, preparation, identity, and 46 years of accumulated hunger arriving at the same moment. -Steve

We're in a golden age of women's middle distance running. Please just give us a matchup of an on their game Keely, Mu, Femke, and all the heavy hitters. It's time for the very fake women's outdoor 800m world record to go...

WATCH: 🇺🇸 Cole Hocker runs 3:45.94 for the SECOND-FASTEST INDOOR MILE EVER & BREAKS THE AMERICAN RECORD. Closed the final 400m in 54.82!