Field notes
Straight answers to the questions tired dads ask late at night: step counts, 75 Hard, training on no sleep. One idea per note, written the same way as the Sunday letters.
Training for Hyrox with young kids at home
I put a December race on the calendar with a toddler and a baby at home. Here’s the week I actually run, and the part most dads get backwards.
How to train for Hyrox: a 12-week plan that runs in a garage
Most Hyrox plans assume a warehouse. This one assumes shoes, one pair of dumbbells and a loaded backpack, and it starts with the two stations you can skip.
Hybrid training for dads: the honest version
Hybrid training is having a moment, and dads keep asking if it works on broken sleep. It does. It just looks different than the influencer version.
Why we don't do 75 Hard (and what we run instead)
75 Hard sends you back to day one every time you slip. With a newborn in the house, that rule is the whole problem. Here's the version that bends.
10,000 steps was an ad. Here's the real number.
The 10,000 number came from a 1965 pedometer ad, not a lab. The science lands closer to 7,000. Here's how we score steps so a real week still counts.
Get the next one Sunday morning.
One letter a week from a dad still in it. Free, and your first workout lands a minute after you join.