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Black Cats Run explores endurance not as a performance metric—but as a cultural practice. We dig into the science, psychology, and ideology of training systems that shape how we run, live, and think.

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A book about performance, training, and the stories athletes are told.

The Blood and the Rain builds on the same questions at the heart of Black Cats Run—about performance, training, and what it means to improve.

Out July 2025 — Paperback and ebook.

Tristan Black-Ingersoll is an educator, coach, writer, podcaster, and endurance theorist. From 2013 to 2018, he led the Concord High School boys’ cross country team from obscurity to dominance, culminating in back-to-back state championships—including a 2017 performance so commanding that no combination of remaining teams could have matched it.A former NCAA athlete and lifelong student of endurance, Black-Ingersoll brings a multidisciplinary lens to the physiology, psychology, and pedagogy of human performance. His work challenges the mechanistic dogmas of modern sports science, reframing endurance not as output to be maximized, but as regulation to be reimagined.He holds a B.A. in European History from Bates College and a Master’s in Social Studies Education from Boston University.