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🏃 How R.A.D Athletes Lauren Weeks and Sinead Bent Are Chasing Stockholm

January 22nd, 2026

Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

  • 🏃 As the 2025/26 HYROX season heats up, R.A.D athletes Lauren Weeks and Sinead Bent are chasing the same goal from very different starting points.

  • 📱 The accounts that earn a follow in 2026 aren’t chasing clicks — they make us think, laugh, learn, or train smarter.

  • 🧠 Train more or train longer? WOD Science is launching a nine-week study to answer one of the biggest questions facing Masters athletes.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Our training is very much CrossFit. There's a lot of carryover in CrossFit. I don't think I would be as good if I didn’t do (CrossFit).”

Lauren Weeks, three-time HYROX world champion, on her HYROX training.
HYROX

The Veteran and the Newcomer: Inside the 2025/26 HYROX Season with R.A.D’s Lauren Weeks and Sinead Bent

Credit: Scott Freymond

With origins as a CrossFit-exclusive brand, R.A.D has expanded over the past few years to support athletes in other sports, including skateboarding, running, surfing, and HYROX. Currently, their roster is diverse, celebrating fitness in its many forms. 

  • With the 2026 HYROX season underway, Elite 15 athletes Lauren Weeks and Sinead Bent have been training, competing, and strategizing as the World Championships in June approach. 

Remind Me

In addition to the many races held worldwide each year, HYROX has four Majors. This year, two have passed – Hamburg, Germany, in October and Melbourne, Australia, in December. 

Two upcoming majors are in Phoenix, AZ, at the end of January and Warsaw, Poland, in mid-April. 

  • Racers seeking to compete in the Elite 15 Division at the World Championships must finish in the top three in the Elite Division at one of the Majors to qualify. This requirement also applies to those competing in the Elite Doubles Division.

On a recent episode of The R.A.D Tapes, the crew sat down with Weeks in her home in Las Vegas, NV, and with Bent in Hebden Bridge, England, to catch up with them both.

SPEED READS

🚨🚨 The CrossFit Open is Coming: The 2026 CrossFit Open will take place February 26-March 16, so get signed up now!

🚢🔥 HYROX Sets Sail: The HYROX Cruise is officially open to athletes worldwide — a five-day floating training camp in October 2026 that blends expert-led workouts, recovery, education, a never-before-seen race format, and pure community energy, all aboard a Mediterranean cruise with stops in Barcelona and Marseille.

💪🍽️ Fuel for the Fittest: In this article, CrossFit’s Jocelyn Rylee (CF-L4) breaks down how to dial in your nutrition before the Open — focusing on strategic fueling, recovery support, and performance priorities to help athletes stay strong, recover faster, and consistently attack workouts throughout the season.

💪📊 Humans Still Rule the Gym: A new Les Mills report finds that while fitness tech and tracking tools are increasingly part of training, most gymgoers don’t want AI coaches — only about 10% prefer AI-generated workouts, with the majority favoring real human trainers for connection, motivation, and expertise.

ICYMI: After losing her leg, Adaptive CrossFit Games athlete Diana Jordan chose to “kick life’s ass.” (Rx Article)

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

6 Instagram Accounts We Think You Should Be Following Right Now

Credit: World Fitness Project

We love it, and we hate it. And we spend too much of our time on it.

We’re talking about social media, of course.

Sometimes it feels like an endless scroll of AI-generated slop, recycled trends, clickbait, and content you don’t want to consume.

  • But every now and then, you stumble across a diamond in the rough: an account that makes you laugh, teaches you something useful, or leaves you fired up and inspired. And maybe that’s why we can’t seem to pull ourselves away.

In light of this, here are six entertaining, educational, or inspirational accounts that we are loving right now. 

RESEARCH

How Often Should Masters Athletes Train? WOD Science Wants to Know (And Needs Your Help)

Credit: Victor Freitas

As we get older, our recovery seems to take longer, and some of us aren’t bouncing back from workouts as quickly as we used to. 

Perhaps we used to grind five days a week at the gym, keeping the intensity high, but that just isn’t sustainable anymore. Or some of us used to rack up two-hour sessions, knocking out back-to-back metcons, but we just can’t quite hang in the same way. 

For most athletes, and particularly masters athletes, recovery plays a major role in a training schedule. It can determine how hard and how often a person over 35 years old should exercise.

  • “A lot of athletes reaching 40 years old experience reduced recovery, especially after hard sessions. The feeling that they can’t train as much as in the good old days increases the chances of getting injured as the relative load on the body becomes too high, ”Gommaar D’Hulst, founder of WOD Science and the senior scientist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, told Morning Chalk Up. 

He continued: “We do not know exactly if this is physiologically true.”

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