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Precision tools for endurance runners. Know your numbers. Own every mile.

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Tenax Running

Built for runners who value discipline over noise.

Tenax Running exists for steady work, durable progress, and gear that earns its place. Field Notes are where we clarify the training principles behind that standard.

Clear training notes, useful resources, and gear notes for runners who value discipline over noise.

How to Use Race Pace in Training
Race pace is a tool for rhythm, specificity, and confidence.
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How to Fuel Race Day
Race-day fueling should be familiar and practiced.
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How to Fuel Long Runs
Fueling helps long runs stay productive and useful.
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How to Think About Long Runs
The long run is controlled exposure to more time and distance.
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Hard Days Need Easy Days
Adaptation happens from stress the body can recover from.
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How Easy Runs Should Feel
Easy is a relationship between effort, breathing, and repeatability.
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Training Calculators

Seven practical tools for runners: training paces, race prediction, heart rate zones, VO₂ max, weekly mileage, lactate threshold, and run/walk planning.

Use a recent, honest effort. Better inputs produce better training paces.

Enter a recent race result

VDOT-style fitness score
Easy Pace / mile
Marathon Pace / mile
Threshold Pace / mile
Interval Pace / mile
Repetition Pace / mile
Input Race Pace / mile

Enter a race result

Predicted finish time
Pace / mile
Pace / km
5K Split
Halfway Split

Heart Rate Reserve uses both max HR and resting HR. % Max HR only requires max HR.

Enter your heart rate data

Heart Rate Zones

Enter race or test data

ml/kg/min estimated VO₂ Max
Fitness Category
VDOT-style Score
Easy Pace / mile
Threshold Pace / mile

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Enter your current mileage

Suggested peak weekly volume
Peak Long Run
Taper Starts Week
Avg Build Rate
Cutback Weeks

Enter race, pace, or HR data

Lactate Threshold Pace / mile
Estimated LTHR
Effort Zone
Tempo Pace / mile
Cruise Interval / mile

Enter a goal and interval ratio

Required running pace / mile
Overall Pace / mile
Estimated Cycles
Total Run Time
Total Walk Time

Gear coming soon

Built slowly. Tested honestly.

Good gear should disappear while you train. It should fit without distraction, hold up over time, move with purpose, and earn its place.

Tenax gear is being built slowly. No hype. No noise. Just the work.