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The Endurance Athlete Journey

Author: Coach Justin White & Sports Dietitian Katie Kissane

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The Endurance Athlete Journey Podcast helps runners, triathletes, and endurance athletes train smarter, fuel better, and build long-term durability in sport.


Hosted by Coach Justin and sports dietitian Katie, the show explores the training, nutrition, recovery, and mindset challenges endurance athletes actually face—without the confusion and generic internet fitness advice that often leads to burnout, inconsistency, and frustration.


From first triathlons and swim anxiety to fueling mistakes, recovery, race-day expectations, and balancing training with real life, each episode combines practical coaching insight with evidence-based nutrition guidance and honest athlete conversations to help listeners better understand the “why” behind their training and fueling decisions.


Whether you’re preparing for your first race or trying to become a more complete endurance athlete, this podcast gives you clear, experience-driven guidance you can actually apply to your training, recovery, and performance.

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Send us Fan Mail Are you completing your training plan but struggling to recover, execute quality workouts, or make consistent progress? The problem may not be your effort. It may be how your training is structured. Most endurance training plans follow a seven-day week. But is that structure actually optimal for every athlete? In Episode 133, Coach Justin and Coach Katie challenge the traditional training week and explore whether longer training cycles could provide a better way to manage vol...
Send us Fan Mail With just two weeks until my first HYROX race in Denver, I’m putting together a plan for one of the biggest challenges: pacing. In Episode 5 of Highway to HYROX, I recap my latest training and share what a recent half-distance HYROX simulation taught me about managing effort, running on tired legs, and knowing where to hold back. From controlling the opening run and SkiErg to tackling burpee broad jumps and saving enough for the final wall balls, I walk through how I’m approa...
Send us Fan Mail Elite athletes are using sodium bicarbonate—ordinary baking soda—to improve performance. Research suggests it can provide an advantage during certain high-intensity efforts. But does that benefit translate to everyday endurance athletes, and what are you giving up to get it? In this episode, Coach Justin and Coach Katie examine the science behind sodium bicarbonate supplementation, its potential benefits for runners, cyclists, and triathletes, and the costs and side effects t...
Send us Fan Mail What happens when you still remember exactly what kind of athlete you used to be—but your current body isn’t ready to perform at that level yet? Returning to endurance sport after injury, surgery, or significant time away creates a challenge beginners don’t face: you bring experience, expectations, old paces, old power numbers, and a clear memory of what capable used to feel like. The danger is letting that past version of yourself determine what you expect from the athlete y...
Send us Fan Mail Are your best racing days behind you, or are you limiting what you believe is still possible? As endurance athletes get older, personal records become harder to chase, recovery changes, and the way we measure success can begin to shift. But does getting older mean you have to stop being competitive? In this fourth installment of our Aging as an Endurance Athlete series, Coach Justin and Coach Katie explore the mental side of aging in endurance sports. Drawing from their exper...
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